Simon, James, 1880-1944

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James Simon was born in 1880 in Berlin. He studied music in Berlin and Munich and is regarded as a "lost" late romantic composer. In 1933 he emigrated via Switzerland to Amsterdam, where he stayed until his deportation in 1941 to Theresienstadt. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.

From the guide to the James Simon Collection, 1931-1945, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives)

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Birth 1880

Death 1944

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