Sophia Michaels
“They were two normal people, and yet they were fighting a war,” he said.
Now, after 50 years of being a public figure, Jerry Springer has finally come to terms with his birth. In fact, he’s started to idealize his experience. “Now that I’ve come to terms with my birth, I feel much more proud of it,” he said. “It’s not a great experience, but it’s better than what I had in Poland.”
When Jerry Springer was born in February 1944, there was very little indicating he was meant for greatness. In 2012, the talk show host opened up about his birth, revealing that even though he was raised in America, he was actually born in a subway in London. “My birth was a little bit out of the ordinary because I was born at the Highgate – you call them tube stations, I say subway,” he explained to the BBC. Speaking further, the veteran television host explained the reason behind his strange place of birth — he was born during World War II. “And during the war women who were in the ninth month would often spend the night in the subway stations because those were the bomb shelters,” he added.
But even though the war ended a year after his birth, Jerry had a constant reminder of the horrible times in his parents Margot and Richard Springer who were forced to flee Poland just before the war broke out. Like many who survived the war, Margot and Richard were never the same as confirmed by Jerry. “They’d talk about the War in general terms, and then stop in mid-sentence. It was too painful for them,” he recounted to the Independent in 2008. According to Jerry, though his parents led normal lives in America, it was only possible because they repressed the pain and horror they battled with.
