Summary of Marie Jalowicz Simon's Underground in Berlin

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #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.