A Nazi concentration camp survivor will be guest speaker at a western Iowa church tonight (Thursday). Steen Metz was a boy living in Denmark when the Nazis conquered the country in 1940. Tova (TOH-vuh) Brandt, curator at the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, says then-eight-year-old Metz and his family were arrested in 1943 and deported to Theresienstadt (tur-EE-jzen-stot) in Czechoslovakia.
Some 15-thousand children passed through the camp and Brandt says Metz is one of fewer than 15-hundred who survived.
Metz’ father died of starvation and hard labor at the camp. Metz gave a presentation to students at the Elk Horn High School this morning and at 7 p.m. tonight, he’ll speak at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church.
