Summary of Marie Jalowicz Simon's Underground in Berlin

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#1 My parents, Hermann and Betti Jalowicz, were married in 1911. My father, who had been to law school with Zirker, had gone into partnership with him and Heilbrunn. He had a desk job and attended to the day-to-day work of the practice.

#2 My grandparents on my mother’s side had both died before I was born. After that, my aunt Grete took over the apartment at 44 Rosenthaler Strasse. She gave dinner parties there for the whole family circle on the major Jewish holidays.

#3 My great-aunt Doris presided over the family, and she always wore grey silk with a ribbon around her neck. She had once been a very rich woman, and had fled from Russia to Berlin before the revolution.

#4 The apartment in Rosenthaler Strasse was also the scene of many family stories that were told only surreptitiously. One of them was about my aunt Ella, and happened when I was still a small child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822512979

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

My parents, Hermann and Betti Jalowicz, were married in 1911. My father, who had been to law school with Zirker, had gone into partnership with him and Heilbrunn. He had a desk job and attended to the day-to-day work of the practice.

#2

My grandparents on my mother’s side had both died before I was born. After that, my aunt Grete took over the apartment at 44 Rosenthaler Strasse. She gave dinner parties there for the whole family circle on the major Jewish holidays.

#3

My great-aunt Doris presided over the family, and she always wore grey silk with a ribbon around her neck. She had once been a very rich woman, and had fled from Russia to Berlin before the revolution.

#4

The apartment in Rosenthaler Strasse was also the scene of many family stories that were told only surreptitiously. One of them was about my aunt Ella, and happened when I was still a small child.

#5

I began going to elementary school in 1928. It was a time of mass unemployment, and many very poor people lived near the catchment area of this school. My parents did not want to send me to an exclusive private school, but they wanted to limit my contact with that world.

#6

I was taken to school by my nanny, Levin, every morning. I was stripped and washed from head to foot after class, and I wore a fresh set of clothes. I did not like the school, and I did not learn much there.

#7

My parents were in a terrible situation in 1938. My father had run up debts everywhere, and was not allowed to practise as a notary since 1933. His permit to run a legal practice was valid until September 1938, on the grounds of a regulation making an exception for Jewish frontline fighters in the First World War.

#8

In 1938, all Jews with Polish passports were expelled from Germany. Several boys in my class at the newly founded Jewish secondary school in Wilsnacker Strasse were affected. We reacted to the parting in a remarkably disciplined manner: we kept silent for a while, and then went back to lessons.

#9

I had to move out of the Waldmanns’ apartment, and rent two little rooms from a family called Goldberg at 32 Landsberger Strasse. They were typical petits bourgeois, and