Liberation and being reunited
Indeed, the next day the Americans would march into
Brunssum, just as they had announced. After the occu-pation the Jews came out of hiding one after another.
All those, who had been hiding with Christian families
in the area of Brunssum, Hoensbroek, and Heerlen,
gathered together at the home of the Jewish Eisemann
family in Hoensbroek. Mrs. Eisemann nee Daniel came
from a place in the vicinity of Meiningen in Germany.
With these folks I had been living as of December
1944; they did not have children of their own. At first
one didn’t have any contact with other survivors,
however, later on through the ”Joodse Rat”, other
organizations and persons the families would be
reunited. For four years I had lived under the occu-pation of Holland by the Nazis, many a month in
hiding; now, finally, I could again walk into the street
as a free person, and I could start the search for my
parents and my sisters.
One day Sammy Nussbaum from Huenfeld visited with
me; he was in our area as a soldier with the occupying
forces. This was the first personal encounter with a
person from my former life.
During the winter 1944/45 Alfred as a
fourteen year old after his liberation
