Simon Hammelburg

Simon Hammelburg (born February 28, 1952, Amsterdam) is a Dutch entertainer, songwriter, author and journalist. During the seventies he started as a news broadcaster with AVRO Broadcasting (Radio & TV) in the Netherlands where he worked as an anchor and travelling journalist. In the early eighties he became the U.S. Bureau Chief for Dutch and Belgium radio and TV in New York and for several newspapers and weeklies.

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Prior to the first Gulf War (1991) he produced the video ‘Shalom from Holland' with director Ralph Inbar and film maker Floris Sijbesma. The clip was performed by dozens of singers and musicians from all over the world like George Baker, Joe Bourne, Adèle Bloemendaal, Ruud Bos, Marco Borsato, Ted de Braak, Jaap Dekker, Lex Goudsmit, Donald Jones, Caroline Kaart, Ben Kramer, Lenny Kuhr, Thijs van Leer, Donna Lynton, Maggie MacNeal, Harry Sacksioni and Daniël Wayenberg as a token of solidarity to the Israeli people who were threatened by missiles fired from Iraq. Hammelburg co-wrote the song with Ron Klipstein. It was broadcast repeatedly on Dutch, Israeli and other international television networks during Gulf War I and was given a special award by the Knesset.

Hammelburg co-authored various books, such as ‘My Judaism’ and wrote ‘Kaddisj voor Daisy’ (1996) and ‘Broken on the inside – The War never ended’ (Aerial Media 2014), based on 1200 interviews with Holocaust survivors and their children, providing insights into the trauma’s of the first and post-war generations of Holocaust victims. The interviews were made during a campaign to help American Jews and other individuals file claims for property they lost during the nazi era in what was to become East Germany.

Simon Hammelburg is a Holocaust educator giving lectures in Europe, the United States and Israel.