First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors

Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to go into hiding separately from Al and his two older sisters. Al was just months old when he was placed with a Dutch Indonesian family and their Muslim nanny, who cared for him for nearly three years. 

After the war, when Al reunited with his mother at three and a half years old, he did not remember her. Watch Al talk about his experiences and what happened to the rest of his family. 

Marking 25 years, First Person is an interview between journalist Bill Benson and a Holocaust survivor on the Museum’s YouTube page, and it includes questions from the audience. This program is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.