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Ernest (Ernst) Simon was born in 1930 in Eisenstadt but the family moved to Vienna’s Jewish district after the Anschluss in March 1938. After the violence of Kristallnacht, Ernest was put on a Kindertransport, received by an aunt already working as a domestic in the UK, who also facilitated the arrival of his parents and brother Kurt. After the war Ernest’s parents opened a fine ladies’ handbags shop. Naturalised in 1948, Ernest served two years in the Royal Air Force and having studied Commerce/Economics with languages at Leeds University held various management positions at ICI in, among other countries, Germany and Hungary. Ernest has been involved in the Holocaust Educational Trust for several years, giving talks about his experiences.
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INTERVIEWEE:
Ernest S.
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1930
Place of birth:
Eisenstadt
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Place of Birth
Eisenstadt
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Place of Birth
Eisenstadt
"The whole reason that we have this interview is to let future generations know what kind of life of we had so they should have a better life, not have to suffer through all the traumas we had to suffer. As time goes on the memory of those days and the importance of it will dim, and this programme will help keep it in people's minds and hopefully let future generations have a better life. It should be a better world."
- Arnold Weinberg, AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive.
"The distribution of life chances in this world is often a very random bus"
- Peter Pultzer.
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