Alfred Salomonson (1895, Amsterdam), metal trader, married Jenny Gestetner in London in 1932. They lived in Brussels and later Haarlem, where daughter Martha (1934) and son Philip (1943) were born. Despite wealthy relatives abroad, they stayed in the Netherlands. In 1942 Alfred was sent to labor camp Vledder but escaped; the family went into hiding under the name Smit in Lunteren. Arrested in November 1943, they were taken to Westerbork. Alfred died in prison in Scheveningen in early 1944. Jenny and the children were deported on 3 March 1944 to Auschwitz, where they were murdered on arrival. Alfred’s sisters also perished. Jenny’s London family, related to the Gestetner stencil company, survived. Hidden letters from nephew Flip Slier (later killed in Sobibor) shed light on Alfred’s wartime years. After the war, Alfred’s buried valuables were uncovered, but his family was gone.
