Holocaust world war 2 Survivor Pieter Meerburg testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3

 

Pieter Meerburg, holocaust survivor of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Holland. My father was a chemist and head of the central laboratory. We had so many Jewish refugees since 1935 fleeing from Germany and from Poland. The first group of boys was taken from Amsterdam in 1941. The big deportations started in 1942 and then I stopped studying chemistry. The feelings against the Germans rose very high. Then I along with other students organized ourselves to save as many Jewish children as we could. We went looking for hiding places and told the parents mouth to mouth that we could safely take children only to host families for hiding. The actual transportation of the children was done by women in our group. With more than one child we had to separate them to different host families to preserve the safety of hiding them. I had false documents to work as inspector of the signal system on the train. The women board the train with the children and I sit inside the train care a distance away to watch over them until they get to the destination. Children always went to poor families, we found them through the churches and ministers both Catholics and the Reformed church helped enormously. All the groups together had 1000 children and this is a small number compared to the number of children that needed our help. It was the golden rule that the parents do not know where is the children because it was too dangerous, the parents trusted the church with the life of their children completely. It was dangerous to enlarge our underground group because other groups who took many many more people than we had done had many casualties because of that. People gave their own lives to save other people. After the liberation of Netherlands we established the office where all the parents could come to get their children returned to them.

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