Peter Metzelaar // Full Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Learn more about Peter Metzelaar by visiting his Survivor Encyclopedia: Washington State profile: www.holocaustcenterseattle.or...
Peter shares his story as a Holocaust survivor.
Recorded on March 4, 2009.

[@Chief-Solarize]

What an amazing storyteller. God bless him and thank God for mothers like his.

[@alisonbarlow7836]

His mom is one resourceful and clever woman!

[@marilyntape508]

His mum was so brave dressing up as a nurse🥰🇦🇺

[@yvonnemargo56]

i have listened to hundreds of testimonies but never heard one so eloquently spoken . Thank you so much - Wow unbelievable expression. i wish it was longer and could hear of what Peter became and hear from his family.

[@marilynlarosa7449]

Peter recounts in such detail like it was yesterday and has shared with much wisdom that no Democracy is Safe if falsehood and injustice are allowed to take Hold Thank you God Bless!

[@tabithaadkins1840]

Wow, a very wise man in 2009!

[@sofiakempp]

He just came to my school today, and it was so nice to hear his story ❤️

[@justmejustme1245]

WOW! How powerful was this entire interview!!!!!!!

[@anne-mariederycke2874]

Bedankt Peter voor het mooie maar triestig verhaal, wat een moeder lijden kan, jullie hebben heel veel geluk gehad in die vreselijke en donkere oorlogsjaren.

[@anasol8115]

Maravillosa persona. Gracias por compartir tu historia !!

[@margaretroselle8610]

Wow! What a fascinating testimony ! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this ! Greetings from New Zealand to all concerned.

[@deborahcrawford9079]

Such a wise man, bless him

[@raycortopassi4030]

I could not stop listening to this man’s story. So poignant. Thank you.

[@thelavenderlatch]

I have so enjoyed this time listening to Peter and his remarkable life story. Truly God was with you both during your ordeal. Thank you for sharing your story with us.

[@loisrogers9042]

Love his story of his mother's bravery and determination, and that of the helpers along the way. His ending statements against using " My country, right or wrong" is powerful!❤

[@DonnaCrotchett-sb6md]

Excellent presentation, Peter. Thanks for telling your story and the story of the people who risked their lives for you and your mother. So glad you made it through.

[@patriciabeyer8029]

Thank you. ❤ Well said.

[@tamaraheater9695]

AMEN!

[@marilyntape508]

Yes nothing has changed 😢

[@dianemardis8964]

Good testimony

[@mskay949]

Wow, this testimony is amazing! I have heard thousands of testimonies and his is so interesting, I could listen to him for hours. His English is perfect. So often it’s hard to understand the testimony’s because there English is so broken and hard to understand. I’m always amazed that they have been in this country for decades and still there English is so poor. Great testimony!

[@trueblue8558]

Beautiful story! Beautiful words! BEAUTIFUL WORDS TO LIVE BY!

[@allabiel3340]

The moral of the story is, if someone saves your life, you do not wait 50 years to reach out, also Claus and Regina should have been recognized as Righteous among the nations

[@AB-fp2dq]

God bless 🙌 🙏 you always

[@gloriakourounis6976]

One of the most exciting, suspenseful accounts of one’s life I have ever heard. Bravo to you little Peter and your Mom in her Red Cross “uniform”. I will never forget your story. Yes, we must fix it by looking straight at it and not looking the other way. I have heard so many testimonies from Holocaust survivors that I envied their courage and endurance so much so that I wish I were Jewish. I am a Jehovah Witness and we do expect persecution as Jesus said we would but on a grander scale at the start of the Great Tribulation and hope and pray I will have the courage to face and endure what comes.

[@Annieisfreejustlikebutterflies]

ווי צו געפֿינען אַ באָכער אין ווידעא ער איז מיין קאָרעוו.

[@cherylsumner5240]

Very informative and glad you survived...but your lip smacking got onto my last nerve

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

40 years after the war, I had taught myself German and had started to spend my summers in Germany in a strangely personal quest to understand how this evil had happened and why my uncle had had to die fighting the Nazis in 1944. Answers I couldn't find in the hundreds of books on the subject that I had read. One summer I ended up living with a woman named Hedwig Rieth who was quite famous in the town of Tübingen for her wartime exploits in smuggling Jewish artists into Switzerland and keeping their artwork hidden until the war ended, despite being under surveillance by the Gestapo. The stories that Hedwig, a very sweet, kind (and obviously very brave) woman, told me were much like these testimonials--personal accounts of the horrors described in all those books I had read. Through these stories, and the many interviews I conducted during those years with other victims of the Nazis, with people who were not Nazis but who went along with it because they were so frightened, and even a handful with unrepentant Nazis who had done terrible things...I finally really began to understand how such evil had entered the world. Like this man talking about his trauma as a young Jewish boy hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands, I too have come to the conclusion that we are not immune from the resurgence of that same evil. Consider what has happened in America since 2016. The Republican party has now (2022) embraced Christian/white nationalism, which is Nazism! We are in very grave danger indeed. 40 years ago I was certain that such a thing could never happen. Never in my life have I been so wrong about anything. God help us.

[@maxsmith695]

Trumpism is a collection of low IQ grifters. Winners write the script. WW2 winners were more interested in having nothing of WW2 reported.

[@paulagrant1073]

Christian or being white has nothing to do with Nazism, but what you just wrote does. You are spreading hate toward certain people. That is what they did, the Jews or anyone who didn't agree with them was the enemy and must be eliminated. Also the handicap, the old etc. Watch what you say for you are spreading the same kind of propaganda. God help us all to never paint all of certain people with the same brush.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

@@paulagrant1073 So, if I can possibly disentangle your very weird rant, it's recalcitrant Jews and devious hippies who stand in the way of your glorious 4th Reich? Please tell me more, Nazi-Mama.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

@@paulagrant1073 "Being white has nothing to do with Nazism"?! Lady, are you really serious? Do you have any concept of what the "master race" was? I don't think I've ever seen a comment quite as ignorant and insane as this. Ever. In 60-some years.

[@maxsmith695]

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