Date of birth:

February 22nd, 1915 (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Date of death:

December 27th, 2007 (Everett/Washington, United States)

Nationality:

Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Peter G. Hulswit was born February 22, 1915, the son of Bartholomeus Hulswit and Neeltje Hulswit-de Lange. In 1935 he took a job as sports instructor with the Holland-America Line. After the German occupation of the Netherlands, he joined the resistance and was involved in smuggling Allied air crews and Jewish children out of occupied territory to Spain and Switzerland. In 1941, he was betrayed by a double agent and imprisoned in Compiègne. 1942 saw him transferred to concentration camp Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg where he was liberated in May 1945 by Soviet troops. After the liberation he stayed in this camp to help the sick. He was involved after the war in repatriating former Dutch PoWs from the Far East. As an interpreter he was involved in the post-war cases against war criminals and worked for the Dutch Red Cross and UNICEF. In 1947 he married Helen; initially living with her in the Netherlands but they emigrated to the U.S.A. where he passed away in 2007.

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  - Peter G Hulswit (1915-2007) - Find a Grave-gedenkplek