Clarification: France-Obit-Veil story

Clarification: France-Obit-Veil story | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1974 file photo, French Health Minister Simone Veil speaks about abortion law at the French National Assembly in Paris. Simone Veil, a Nazi death camp survivor and prominent French politician who spearheaded abortion rights, dies at age 89. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas, File)

PARIS – In the June 30 obituary for French political icon Simone Veil, The Associated Press reported that a Polish woman who helped run the Nazi camp at Auschwitz helped Veil when she was a prisoner there. The story should have made clear that the Polish woman was a prisoner herself and was one of the inmates made to work as functionaries there.

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