Career
Few facts are known about Alternate, who worked in Theresienstadt concentration camp together with Victor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Hans Krása and others In June 1943, he arrived at Theresienstadt from Ostrava. His participation in the musical culture there comes from his "Six Miniatures for the Piano" in the second of the Studio for New Music concerts under the direction of Victor Ullman.
lieutenant is also known that he composed an accompaniment to Smetana"s "The Bohemian Song" which was written for the 60th anniversary of Smetana"s death in 1944.
In September 1944, Alternate was deported to Auschwitz.