A Jewish clandestine in Berlin 1940-1945

Portrait of Marie Jalowicz Simon. © Collection Heinrich Simon.

Around the publication of «Clandestine» by Marie Jalowicz Simon, translated from German by Bernard Lortholary, ed. Flammarion, 2015. With the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.

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