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Florence Simmons

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The Resume

    (circa 1927- )
    Lived in Israel, London and Brooklyn, NY
    Resides in Long Island, NY
    Imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp during WW II
    Gave birth to Gene Simmons as Chaim Witz, Jr. (August 25, 1949)

Why she might be annoying:

    She has a thick Hungarian accent.
    She married three months after meeting a guy at a Zionist youth group.
    She violated a British blockade and moved to the Palestinian Mandate.
    She divorced Gene Simmons's father (1954).
    Her locket contains a picture of Gene Simmons in his KISS makeup.
    She said of Gene 'I told him never to stick out his tongue. He didn't listen.'
    When shown a picture of the entire KISS Group it took her two tries to point out which was Gene.

Why she might not be annoying:

    When she moved to America, she Americanized Chaim Witz, Jr.'s name to Gene Klein and eventually Gene Simmons.
    She survived a concentration camp and was a pioneer settler of Israel.
    Because she was a skilled beautician she was kept alive in the concentration camp to do the guards' wife's hair.
    After being liberated, she returned to find her parents dead and someone else living in her house.
    She said of son Gene Simmons 'As long as he doesn't smoke or take drugs, I'm happy.'
    One Mother's Day Gene Simmons presented her with perfume and KISS condoms.
    She makes needlepoints of a Gene Simmons breathing fire.
    Cher and her children Chastity and Elijah Blue, attended a Passover seder at her home. Diana Ross also attended one of her seders.
    She made Gene Simmons promise to complete college. He did.
    She speaks Hungarian, Hebrew and English

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 24 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 36 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 72 Votes: 48.61% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 92 Votes: 53.26% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 227 Votes: 52.86% Annoying