Editing Simone Veil (section)

===Deportation===
When [[Battle of France|Germany invaded France]] and the [[Vichy regime]] came to power in June 1940, the family managed to avoid being deported, as Nice had been included in the [[Italian occupation of France|Italian occupation zone]].{{sfn | Veil | 2007 | p=27}} Asked not to come to school by its superintendent, Simone Jacob had to study at home. As the round-up of Jews intensified, the family split up and lived with different friends under false identities. Denise left for [[Lyon]] to join the resistance, while 16-year-old Simone continued studying and passed her baccalauréat exam under her real name in March 1944.{{sfn | Veil | 2007 | p=38}} The next day she was arrested by the [[Gestapo]] on her way out to meet friends and celebrate the end of her secondary education.{{sfn | Veil | 2007 | p=38}} The rest of her family was also arrested on that day.

On 7 April 1944, Simone, her mother, and her sisters were sent to the transit camp of [[Drancy internment camp|Drancy]], then on 13 April were deported to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] in Convoy 71.{{sfn | Veil | 2007 | p=}} Simone’s brother and father were deported to the Baltic states in Convoy 73, never to be seen again, and thus assumed to have been murdered. Her sister Denise was deported to the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]], which she survived, and after the end of World War II in Europe was reunited with Simone.

On 15 April 1944, Simone arrived at Auschwitz. She later wrote that she managed to avoid the gas chamber by lying about her age and was registered for the labour camp.{{sfn | Veil | 2007 | p=51}} In January 1945, Simone, along with her mother and sister, was sent on a march to [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]], where her mother died of [[typhus]]. Madeleine also fell ill but, like Simone, was saved when the camp was liberated on 15 April 1945.{{sfn| Veil | 2007 | p=76}}