Liberation and being reunited
This certain Cahn, who probably was stationed in
Holland for just a short period of time, wrote to his wife
in New York about me. He took me to a certain Lt. Lip-schutz of his company, and I told him of my relatives in San
Francisco. He, too, wrote to the USA, to his mother, that he
had met me at the Eisemann family in Brunssum. His
mother located my relatives via the auxiliary organization
HIAS, and that way I got in touch with them.
After my parents’ rescue just before the end of the war
they, too, got in touch with our folks in the USA, and
that way they learned of my whereabouts. I had already
been liberated as early as November 1944, Gertrud in
Apeldoorn only in the spring of 1945. A Jewish
organization reunited us again. The Cohen family was
pretty sad, of course, since Gertrud was just like a daughter
to them, and the Cohens might have hoped the child could
stay with them for good.
In the fall of 1945, after the deprivations caused by the
war, the Red Cross sent Dutch children for relaxation to
Sweden; my sister and I, too, were among them. The
train traveled through Denmark via Copenhagen, Malmö
and on to Ystad at the southern coast of Sweden.
Alfred during his time with the
Eisemann/ Daniel family in
Brunssum
