Hermann Simon | Marie Jalowicz Simon – In hiding. A young woman survives in Berlin 1940-1945

Arrest by the Gestapo is imminent. Marie Jalowicz is 20 years old and goes into hiding.

More than fifty years later, she tells her whole story for the first time on 77 audio cassettes and what it meant to struggle day by day for three long years in Nazi Berlin. Marie Jalowicz grasps at every straw. For example, she travelled to Bulgaria to flee to Palestine, was denounced and had to return to Berlin. What follows is an almost uninterrupted odyssey through the city of her birth – dozens of accommodations, a false name, the wrong hair colour, false stories… Her hosts and helpers are toilet attendants, passport forgers, consular officials, circus performers, communists, burglars, ordinary people who declare her a family member. Every line is a testimony to how close good and evil are to each other.

Her son, the historian and founding director of the New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Hermann Simon, talks about his mother and her book

Marie Jalowicz Simon: In hiding.

Edited by Irene Stratenwerth and Hermann Simon

A young woman survives in Berlin 1940-1945

The book will not be on sale at the event, as it is now only printed on a print-on-demand basis. If you are interested, please order it directly from the publisher.

An event organised by the Fritz Bauer Forum