Retired SBC Pastor Steve Simpson visits the grave of the physician and holocaust survivor who passed away moments after delivering him in 1957. NEW BERN, N.C. (BP) — Exploring the unusual circumstances surrounding his birth, retired Southern Baptist Pastor Steve Simpson discovered an unexpected connection to the Holocaust. “That’s as much as I knew.,” Simpson said. The Germans invaded Poland in the fall of 1939, and the Jewish ghetto in Lodz was cordoned off in 1940. (EDITOR’S NOTE — Charles Jones is a retired pastor and Baptist historian who lives in Athens, Georgia.