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== Biography ==
== Biography ==


Born September 15, 1927 - Vienna, Austria
Born 1934 in Vienna, Austria. The family moved from Austria to Belgium. After the German invasion, he was among the 44 children hosted in France at the Children's Home in [[Izieu]]. They were all deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Hans' brother survived since he was hosted in a different House.


== USHMM Profile ==
== French Children of the Holocaust ==


Alfred Ament was born on September 15, 1927 in Vienna, Austria to Max Ament (6/28/1895-and Ernestina Ament. His brother, Hans Ament (1934-1944) was born in 1934. In December 1938 or early 1939, the Ament family fled to Belgium. They applied for and received visas for the United States in 1940. The family was placed on waiting lists for passage on a ship. In May 1940, Max Ament was arrested and sent to an internment camp in the south of France. In the spring 1941, the rest of the family received a postcard ordering them to report for deportation. They fled to Marseilles, France. In spring 1942, Ernestina Ament was hospitalized. Alfred was sent to a home for teenagers and his brother Hans was sent to a children’s home. In 1943, the Nazis began raiding the children’s home. Alfred was sent to hide on a farm with two other children. In March 1944, Alfred and 30 other children escaped to Switzerland with false identification cards. Alfred spent the rest of the wars in a refugee camp, and later in a boarding school in Switzerland. He was able to correspond with his mother until she died of tuberculosis. In May 1945, Alfred learned that his father had been killed in either Sobibor concentration camp or Majdanek concentration camp. His grandparents and younger brother Hans were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Hans AMENT was born on February 15, 1934, in Vienna. He was one of the 44 children from the childrens home in Izieu. His father, Max, was deported on convoy 50 of March 4, 1943. His mother, Ernestina, was hospitalized for tuberculosis on March 23, 1944, in the sanatorium LEspérance (Hope) in Hauteville (Ain), not far from Izieu. She died there on August 7, 1944. Hans, who took the name Jean, was arrested on April 6, 1944, and deported on May 30, 1944, on convoy 75. His older brother had been able to emigrate to the United States. His immigration card shows that Hans had also been accepted by the U.S., but too late.


== Museum of Tolerance ==
== Yad Vashem ==


Alfred, the son of a manufacturer, was an eleven year-old when the Germans annexed Austria. When Alfred was six years old, his brother Hans was born. He spent a lot of time playing with Hans, teaching him to ride his tricycle and play with a wind-up train.
Ten-year-old Hans Ament was one of the children living in the children's home in Izieu. Hans was arrested in the raid, taken to the Drancy concentration camp, and on 30 May 1944, was deported to Auschwitz where he was murdered.


After the annexation, Alfred's family fled to Belgium, where they immediately applied for visas to the United States. They received the visas in early 1940, but were put on a waiting list for berths on a ship. Alfred attended school and quickly learned Flemish. He made new friends and went to soccer games and swimming matches.
Max Ament, born in Poland, and his wife Ernestina, from Hungary, lived in Vienna with their sons Alfred (b. 1928) and Hans (b. 1934). In 1939 the family moved to Belgium, planning to immigrate to the US. In March 1940, a US visa was issued to Hans in Antwerp, but in May 1940, before Hans was able to leave, the Germans invaded Belgium and the Aments fled to France.


In May 1940, during the Nazi invasion, Alfred's father, who held a German passport, was arrested and sent to an internment camp in the south of France. That fall, Alfred had his Bar Mitzvah without his father.
Max was deported from Drancy in March 1943, and murdered at either Sobibor or Majdanek.  That same month, Ernestina was admitted to a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, several dozen kilometers from the children's home in Izieu where her little boy, Hans had been brought. Her older son, sixteen-year-old Alfred, was smuggled into Switzerland by the OSE.


In spring 1941, Alfred's mother sold his stamp collection to feed the family. Later on she sold her engagement ring. When they received a postcard ordering them to report for deportation, they fled to Marseilles in unoccupied France. In spring 1942, Alfred's mother became ill and was hospitalized. His brother, Hans, was sent to a children's home and Alfred was sent to a home for teenagers.
In a letter that Hans sent from Izieu to his mother in the sanatorium, the ten-year-old wrote:


Even though he worked in the kitchen, food was scarce, and Alfred was often hungry. In the winter of 1943, the Nazis began raiding children's homes, and Alfred was sent to hide on a farm with two other children. He learned to milk cows and to clean the pigsty.
:"100,000,000 big kisses from your son who is always thinking of you."


In March 1944, Alfred and a convoy of 30 other children escaped to Switzerland with the aid of false identity cards. Close to the border, the children scaled a ten foot-high barbed wire fence and fell onto Swiss soil.
Hans was caught together with the other children at the home in Izieu, and deported on 30 May 1944 from Drancy to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. His mother Ernestina died in the sanatorium in August 1944. His brother Alfred immigrated to the US after the war.  In 1986, Alfred Ament submitted Pages of Testimony to Yad Vashem in memory of his father, Max and his brother, Hans.


Alfred spent the rest of the wars in a refugee camp, and later on in a boarding school in Switzerland. He corresponded with his mother until she died of tuberculosis. Sometime after the war, in May 1945, he learned that his father had been killed in a concentration camp, and that his grandparents and his little brother, Hans, were murdered in the Auschwitz death camp. Alfred was an orphan at seventeen.
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Latest revision as of 17:38, 24 October 2020

Hans Ament (M / Austria, 1934-1944), Holocaust victim

Alfred Ament (M / Austria, 1927), Holocaust survivor

Biography

Born 1934 in Vienna, Austria. The family moved from Austria to Belgium. After the German invasion, he was among the 44 children hosted in France at the Children's Home in Izieu. They were all deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Hans' brother survived since he was hosted in a different House.

French Children of the Holocaust

Hans AMENT was born on February 15, 1934, in Vienna. He was one of the 44 children from the childrens home in Izieu. His father, Max, was deported on convoy 50 of March 4, 1943. His mother, Ernestina, was hospitalized for tuberculosis on March 23, 1944, in the sanatorium LEspérance (Hope) in Hauteville (Ain), not far from Izieu. She died there on August 7, 1944. Hans, who took the name Jean, was arrested on April 6, 1944, and deported on May 30, 1944, on convoy 75. His older brother had been able to emigrate to the United States. His immigration card shows that Hans had also been accepted by the U.S., but too late.

Yad Vashem

Ten-year-old Hans Ament was one of the children living in the children's home in Izieu. Hans was arrested in the raid, taken to the Drancy concentration camp, and on 30 May 1944, was deported to Auschwitz where he was murdered.

Max Ament, born in Poland, and his wife Ernestina, from Hungary, lived in Vienna with their sons Alfred (b. 1928) and Hans (b. 1934). In 1939 the family moved to Belgium, planning to immigrate to the US. In March 1940, a US visa was issued to Hans in Antwerp, but in May 1940, before Hans was able to leave, the Germans invaded Belgium and the Aments fled to France.

Max was deported from Drancy in March 1943, and murdered at either Sobibor or Majdanek. That same month, Ernestina was admitted to a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, several dozen kilometers from the children's home in Izieu where her little boy, Hans had been brought. Her older son, sixteen-year-old Alfred, was smuggled into Switzerland by the OSE.

In a letter that Hans sent from Izieu to his mother in the sanatorium, the ten-year-old wrote:

"100,000,000 big kisses from your son who is always thinking of you."

Hans was caught together with the other children at the home in Izieu, and deported on 30 May 1944 from Drancy to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. His mother Ernestina died in the sanatorium in August 1944. His brother Alfred immigrated to the US after the war. In 1986, Alfred Ament submitted Pages of Testimony to Yad Vashem in memory of his father, Max and his brother, Hans.

External links

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