Brazina Documentary Film Series - February

When
February 07, 2023
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
JFGN (new building)
Spaces left
110

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The Law

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Registration open January 4

Born in France in the 1920s, Simone Veil studied politics at Paris' prestigious Sciences Po until she and her family were deported to extermination camps during World War II. Though she lost her parents and a brother, Veil managed to survive both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, an experience that taught her to fight and which would prepare her for her battles for women's rights in the decades ahead. After the war, she rose in the national government, becoming Chirac's minister of health in 1974 and the driving force behind a then controversial law to legalize abortion in France in the 1970s.

The Law is an impressive, well paced exploration of the continued need for survival and resilience in the shadows of anti-Semitism and sexism, that infected post-war French society.