"When I am asked how I have coped with the Holocaust, I always say the following, “I have no wounds. I have a thick skin.” But it is not right: I was wounded. I do not trust people anymore. I only trust myself.
Kurt Salomon was born in Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1935. His family first escaped to Antwerp and, when the war broke out, to Brussels. In Brussels, he had to wear the yellow star, which he has kept to this day. Kurt Salomon was hidden and reunited with his parents in 1945. They had survived in Mechelen, a transit camp on the way to Auschwitz, by doing painting jobs and working in the infirmary. Kurt Salomon came to Switzerland in 1963, after falling in love with a Swiss woman. He has a son, a daughter (deceased), and two grandsons.