Article content When Salomon Smeer was a child in Holland, his mother gave him away to strangers in order to hide him from German invaders who were intent on arresting and deporting all Jews. Smeer never saw his mother again. She would die in a concentration camp in Auschwitz. He would spend three years living in secret, passed around a clandestine network of households in the Dutch resistance. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Swastika appearances in community disturb Windsor Jewish Federation Back to video Salomon Smeer, a Windsor resident and Holocaust survivor, at his home on April 12, 2021. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star