Marie Jalowicz Simon survived in wartime Berlin by taking off the yellow star that marked her out as Jewish, and going underground. Like 1,700 other Berlin Jews she lived under assumed identities, evaded the authorities and took shelter wherever she could find it. And after the war she remained in Berlin where she became a professor of philosophy, married and had a family. Jane is joined by her son, Hermann Simon who persuaded her to tell her story and by the writer Lisa Appignanesi

Gone to Ground by Marie Jalowicz Simon, published by Profile Books Ltd is out on the 29th February 2015.