Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
FOUNDATION
Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah; Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah is a foundation that was formed in 2000, with recovered money from the property taken from French Jews during World War II. Simone Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp who later became the first directly elected President of the European Parliament, served as the Foundation's first president.