Salo Muller

Salomon Barend Muller, known as Salo, was born to a Jewish family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "See you tonight, and promise to be a good boy!" were the last words his mother Lena Blitz Muller spoke to him on the morning in 1942 she took him to kindergarten, right before she was arrested with his father Louis Muller and sent to the transit camp at Westerbork. From there, they were deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, where they were killed. Salo was only five years old at the time. In the evening, he was tracked down by German soldiers and taken to the children's collection point Hollandsche Schouwburg. Four days later, he was retrieved by his uncle with the help of Walter Süskind and hidden by the resistance in eight different locations over the course of World War II. He survived and after the liberation of Holland, his aunt Judith Menist-Blitz brought him back to Amsterdam. He
resumed his education at age ten. He was expelled from high school for rebellious behavior and switched to a business school, which he left without a degree. Then he began to train in physiotherapy. During this time, he met his future wife Conny van der Sluis, whose parents had been murdered in the Sobibor death camp. They married in 1963 and had two children.
Salo became famous in the 1970s as the physiotherapist for Ajax, the Amsterdam soccer team.
After working with Ajax, he started his own private practice and was the editor of Fysloscoop, the leading magazine on physiotherapy. He wrote two books on the treatment of sports injuries. His Holocaust memoir, See You Tonight and Promise to be a Good Boy!, published in 2017, was the result of his participation in 1995 in the Shoah Project initiated by Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation, where he recorded his testimony. He later successfully campaigned for the Dutch national railway to pay compensation for deporting Jews to the Nazi concentration camps.