A Jewish clandestine in Berlin 1940-1945

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, an orphan at 20 years old, lives in Berlin in the 1930s. Born to Polish Jewish parents, she decides not to wear the yellow star anymore and to hide in Berlin. In a rare testimony, written on the basis of 77 tapes 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.