Editing Simone Signoret (section)

== Early life ==
Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in [[Wiesbaden]], Germany, to Georgette (née Signoret) and André Kaminker. She was the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Her father, a pioneering interpreter who worked in the [[League of Nations]], was a French-born army officer from an assimilated and middle-class Polish-Jewish and Hungarian-Jewish family,<ref>{{cite book | last = Signoret | first = Simone | title = Nostalgia isn't what it used to be | publisher = Penguin Books | location = Harmondsworth, England New York | year = 1979 | isbn = 978-0-14-005181-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/nostalgiaisntwha00sign }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be (Paperback) | work = The Guardian | date = 7 August 2000 | quote = Signoret was descended from Polish/Hungarian Jews }}</ref> who brought the family to [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]] on the outskirts of Paris. Her mother, Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Hayward | first = Susan | title = Simone Signoret (1921–1985) — The body political | journal = Women's Studies International Forum | volume = 23 | issue = 6 | pages = 739–747 | doi = 10.1016/S0277-5395(00)00147-3 | date = November–December 2000 }}</ref>

Signoret grew up in Paris in an intellectual atmosphere and studied English, German and Latin. After completing secondary school during the [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|Nazi occupation]], Simone was responsible for supporting her family and forced to take work as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper ''Les nouveaux temps'', run by [[Jean Luchaire]].{{sfn|David|1993|pp=24-26}}<ref>{{Cite book|title = Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret|last = DeMaio|first = Patricia A.|publisher = University Press of Mississippi|date = January 2014}}</ref>