The Liberation of the Camps, archive films presented by Simon Veil

These archival films, presented by Simon Veil, a Jewish French lawyer and politician, show scenes from the liberation of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Nordhausen, Dachau, Mauthausen. Veil, born in 1927, was sent to Auschwitz in March 1944. She endured the hardships of the camp until its liberation in January 1945. After the war Veil served as the French Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs and also was the first President of the European Parliament. In 2005, sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Veil gave testimony about the camp.