How Did Alfred Survive The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its followers.
Alfred Munzer was a kid who survived The Holocaust. Alfred was born on November 23, 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands. Alfred survived the Holocaust because he was rescued by an Indonesian family living in the Netherlands. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2017)
At the annual party rally held Nuremberg, Germany in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the …show more content…
The only family he had were his Dad Simcha, His Mom Gisele, and his sisters Eva and Leah. On May 21, 1942, Alfred’s father was ordered to report to a German labor camp but evaded the order by checking himself into the hospital for a hernia operation. By September it became apparent that the entire family would need to go into hiding. Simcha faked a suicide attempt in order to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, Gisele sold the family’s possessions and settled her children with friends and neighbors before joining Simcha at the hospital as an assistant in the hospital.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2017.) Alfred was then placed with her ex-husband, Tolé, a native of Indonesia. For the next three years Alfred remained in Tolé’s home, looked after by their housekeeper, Mima Saïna, who became his surrogate mother. Despite their difference in appearance, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Alfred had no sense of being different from the rest of his Indonesian-Dutch family and he was too young to question why he was hidden in the cellar when the Gestapo came to the