About the Author

Simon Hammelburg has written cabaret songs from his early years. Hundreds of them were used to radio, television, records and CDs.He originally worked as a journalist for the AVRO radio news. He was a presenter and traveling reporter. In the early eighties he became a correspondent for Dutch broadcasting companies, newspapers and magazines in New York.In Los Angeles he became the Consul for Industry for the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Hammelburg contributed to various books, among which was 'Mijn Jodendom' (1980), edited by Dick Houwaart. In 1996 he published his own book 'Kaddisj for Daisy, memories of Holocaust survivors and their children'.