Alfred Michaelis Salomon fought as an officer in the German cavalry on the eastern front in the First World War. In the mid-1930s the Salomon family made their home in Amsterdam. Their downstairs neighbour, then a boy, recalls that one evening during the war, two policemen called on Salomon and told him to report to the police station. Salomon’s son and daughter had already been deported. The officers left again when Alfred showed them his First World War decorations, at the prompting of his downstairs neighbour. After his wife had been taken away, Alfred reported to the police station after all. In Westerbork Salomon was given a police job because of his German military past.
His former downstairs neighbour inherited many of Salomon’s belongings: his cuirassier’s helmet and sword, his war decorations, some paintings of horses, an equestrian portrait of Alfred Salomon, and two cigar cutters mounted in walrus ivory.
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