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Oral history interview with Juergen Simonson

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0051 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0455

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    Oral history interview with Juergen Simonson

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    Interview Summary
    Juergen Simonson, born in 1924, discusses his paternal family's conversion from Judaism to Christianity in the nineteenth century and his status as a Mischlinge under Nazi law; his father's dismissal from his judgeship in Forst, Germany in 1935; moving with his parents to Dresden, Germany after experiencing antisemitism; attending a German school and graduating in 1942; being sent for forced labor to a Dresden armaments factory; his father's immigration to England in March 1939 and getting involved with the British German Christian Fellowship in England; his father's failed arrangements for his and his mother's immigration in September 1939; his recruitment into the Organisation Todt (OT), a Nazi construction and engineering group that employed forced laborers; his work with the OT in France and escaping with four friends; his attempt to join the French resistance but getting arrested; finding a job with the American Army and contacting George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, for help in contacting his father and immigrating to England; his immigration to England in June 1945, reuniting with his father and meeting Bishop Bell; his father's ordination as an Anglican priest; his impressions of Bishop Bell and of his advocacy for Jews during World War II; the deportation of his paternal aunt and grandmother from Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt in 1943; his first experience preaching in a German prisoner of war camp in France and his pursuing a call to ministry in England; his time at theological college in Surrey, England from 1948 to 1952 and his life as an Anglican priest; the relationship between Christians and Jews in England today; and the Church of England's current position on the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Juergen Simonson
    Interviewer
    Peggy Obrecht
    Date
    interview:  1998 March 30

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (74 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Obrecht, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Juergen Simonson on March 30, 1998.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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