Simone Veil was born Simone Annie Liline Jacob, the daughter of a Jewish architect in Nice,France, the 13th July 1927. She worked as a lawyer and later served as Minister of Health under president Giscard D'Estaing.Simone Veil was deported to Auschwitz and claimed in January 2005 that during the whole stay, she never saw the sun because of the quantity of smoke coming out of the chimneys.The French magazine "Paris France" relates this in one of its editions (proof below) :"Because of the dense black smoke which covered the sky permanently, Simone Veilnever saw the sunlight in 1944"Simone Veil pushed some infamous laws as the Health Minister : One legalizing the contraceptive pill in 1967 and a second one legalizing abortion in in 1975.