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'See You Tonight...' His story as a young boy in hiding for the nazi's. Salo participated in the Shoah Project, initiated by Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation, with his testimony.

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Salo Muller (1936) Moving Holocaust memoir by a Dutch boy who went into hiding. “See you tonight, and promise to be a good boy!” were the last words Salo Muller’s mother said to him in 1942 as she took him to school in Amsterdam, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. She and her husband were arrested a few hours later and taken to Westerbork, from where they were later transported to Auschwitz. The “why” of the tragedy is something he cannot let go: “Hardly a day goes by when I don’t shed a tear, but unfortunately, it doesn’t change a thing.” See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy! grew out of Salo’s participation in the Shoah Project, initiated by Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation, where his testimony was recorded. This encouraged him to write down his story as a young boy in hiding for the nazi's. In his own words, the book is “the story of a little boy who experienced the most horrible things, but somehow got through it and ended up in a good place.” At only five years old, Salo spent the Second World War in hiding, in as many as eight different locations in the Netherlands. The book recounts his experiences during WWII and explores how, as a young orphan after the war, he tried to make sense of his life. His memories are interwoven with historical facts and context, making it both an autobiography and a historical narrative.

Slogan/Promotie

After an introduction about the consequences of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, follows the story of a six-year-old Jewish boy who has to witness his parents being deported by the Nazis. He himself is saved by brave resistance fighters and spends the war at nine different hiding addresses on closed-off attics or under the floor of a house. After the liberation, Salo Muller continues his career and meets his great love and wife Conny, with whom he has children and grandchildren.

Biografie

From a child in hiding from the Nazis, during the war, Salo transformed in his adult life into a celebrated and renowned physiotherapist for everyone who sought healing from him, including stars from the international film and theatre world and the famous Ajax with Johan Cruyff. Salo Muller has been a sought-after speaker about the years of the Holocaust. Salo participated in the Shoah Project, initiated by Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation, with his testimony. As a Holocaust survivor, he began a personal crusade against the powerful Dutch Railways (NS), by which both his parents were deported. Train tickets that were paid for by the Jewish citizens from whom everything was taken. The personal mission became a paid compensation claim for all Dutch victims and amounted to a total of fifty million euros.

Inhoudsopgave

Part of the 52 chapters: Pushed Aside by the World 1 2. The Total Eradication of the Jews 4 3. Jewish Amsterdam 8 4. The Flight of Queen Wilhelmina 11 5. A Talk with Hitler Dutch Concentration Camps 86 27. A Train from Apeldoorn 89 28. Black Thursday 93 29. Naked in the Cold Night: towards Meeting the End 95 30. Auschwitz 49. Physiotherapist! 148 50. My Time with AFC Ajax 151 51. Conny 153 52. A Close-Knit Family

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