a question for simon raymonde

[Adam]

Simon, years ago you were asked about your Polish origins, but you didn't know too much about it. Have you explored your family tree and history since then?
I wonder do you know anything more today. Thanks.

[simon raymonde]

i know small amounts and some stuff from my mum, my fathers two sisters lillian and gertie both died young as did my father and my connections are less than they were then obviously. alot of the history seems to have died with them....i still have 2 uncles alive, lenny and harold but i don't see much of them sadly. my grandparents were polish jews but i only saw a couple of pics...my dad married outside the jewish faith when he wed my mum and i hear that there was some furore about this.
of course by the time i was fascinated about all this, my dad and aunts were all passed away. I haven't given up, but it's not so easy....i know that they were given a name when they arrived at the port cos they didn't speak english at all and ended up with an 'adopted' name by default really so as i understand it that would make it hard to trace right?

[Adam]

Yes, 'adopted' surname makes it really difficult, especially if they got default one instead of english-sounding variation of original one.
Thank you for answering my question.