Birth Name: Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker
Date of Birth: March 25, 1921
Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Date of Death: September 30, 1985
Place of Death: Auteuil-Anthouillet, France
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*French (mother)
Simone Signoret was a French actress.
Simone was the daughter of Georgette (Signoret) and André Kaminker. Her father was born in Saint-Gratien, France, to a Jewish family (of Polish Jewish, Slovak Jewish, and Hungarian Jewish descent). Her mother was a French Catholic.
Simone’s paternal grandparents were Henry/Henryk/Heinrich Kaminker (the son of Jacob Kaminker and Mina Breunig) and Ernestine Hirschler (the daughter of Hermann Hirschler and Sophie Goldberger de Buda). Henry was born in Krakow, Poland. Ernestine was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Slovak-born father and a Hungarian-born mother.
Simone’s maternal grandparents were Charles-Louis Signoret and Léonie Dubois.
Sources: Genealogy of Simone Signoret (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Simone Signoret (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com