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==Early life==
Gerald Norman Springer was born on February 13, 1944,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/jerry-springer-498154 |title=Jerry Springer |website=Biography |access-date=February 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116170631/http://www.biography.com/people/jerry-springer-498154 |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> in the [[London Underground]]'s [[Highgate tube station|Highgate station]] while the station was in use [[Air raid shelter#London Underground stations|as a shelter]] from German bombing during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=RtqbPAuDEgqHh2af3oDs%2Bw&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=January 6, 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref><ref name="jconline">{{cite news|last=Nathan|first=John|title=Interview tube stat: Jerry Springer|url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/interview-jerry-springer-1.10091|access-date=April 28, 2023|newspaper=Jewish Chronicle Online|date=July 2, 2009}}</ref> Springer grew up on Chandos Road, [[East Finchley]]. His parents, Margot
({{née|Kallmann}}; a bank clerk) and Richard Springer (owner of a shoe shop), were [[Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe|German-Jewish refugees]] who escaped from [[Landsberg an der Warthe]], [[Prussia]] (now [[Gorzów Wielkopolski]], [[Poland]]).<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/new-stories/jerry-springer/how-we-did-it_2.shtml Who do you think you are] [[BBC]] documentary</ref><ref name="sheridan-breakfast">{{cite news | last=Sheridan | first=Patricia | title=Patricia Sheridan's Breakfast with Jerry Springer | work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07162/793130-129.stm | date=June 11, 2007 | access-date=June 21, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/28/Jerry-Springer.html| title=Jerry Springer Biography (1944–)| publisher=Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies| access-date=December 13, 2008}}</ref> His maternal grandmother, Marie Kallmann, who was left behind, was killed in the [[gas van]]s of [[Chełmno extermination camp]] in [[German-occupied Poland]]. His paternal grandmother, Selma Springer (née Elkeles), died at the hospital in the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]] in [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|German-occupied Czechoslovakia]].
. Selma Springer's brother, Hermann Elkeles, was a renowned Berlin doctor who also died at Theresienstadt concentration camp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.340510 |title=Dr. Hermann Elkeles |publisher=Holocaust.cz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006095820/http://www2.holocaust.cz/en/victims/PERSON.ITI.340510 |archive-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref>
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