Marie Jalowicz-Simon

MARIE JALOWICZ SIMON, daughter of a Jewish lawyer, born in Berlin in 1922, survived the period of National Socialism by going underground in Berlin. After the liberation in 1945, she remained in Berlin and was professor of Ancient Literature and Cultural History at the Humboldt University. Her son, Hermann Simon, director of the New Synagogue Berlin-Centrum Judaicum, asked his mother to recount her story of survival on 77 tapes. Marie Jalowicz Simon died in 1998 in Berlin.