A Jewish illegal immigrant in Berlin 1940-1945

Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 4:30 PM
Portrait de Marie Jalowicz Simon. L’exposition présente des extraits des enregistrements avec Marie Simon en 1997 et 1998 et du livre biographie. Clandestine, le témoignage d'une juive ayant survécu dans Berlin entre 1940 et 1945, éd. Flammarion, Paris, 2015. © Collection Heinrich Simon.

Portrait of Marie Jalowicz Simon. © Heinrich Simon collection.

Around the publication of "Clandestine" by Marie Jalowicz Simon, translated from German by Bernard Lortholary, ed. Flammarion, 2015. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 20-year-old orphan, lives in Berlin in the 1930s. Born of Polish Jewish parents, she decided to stop wearing the yellow star and hide in Berlin. In a rare testimony, written on the basis of 77 cassettes recorded by her son before his death, she tells how she escaped until 1945 from roundups, hunger and cold, thanks to the help of many people.

In the presence of Hermann Simon, son of the author, founder and former director of the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum.

Led by Dominique Bourel, director of research, CNRS.

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