Dr. Alfred Munzer – Holocaust Survivor Interview

Dr. Munzer’s family was originally from Poland and moved to the Hague in the Netherlands before his birth. Once the Nazis invaded, the decision was made that the family would be split up and hidden with different families. Dr. Munzer was hidden with an Indonesian family in the Netherlands when he was only nine months old. His mother was the sole survivor from his family and, after going through 12 different concentration camps, they were reunited after the war.

Before 1930 the Jews in Holland made up about 1 percent of the population approximately 110,000. At the end of the war there were 35,000 survivors.  5,000 that returned from the concentration camps and 30,000 that survived in hiding.  75% of Holland’s Jews were murdered. This is the largest percentage of deaths during the Holocaust outside of Poland.

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