Suicide prevention counselor, 67, killed himself, tired of nightmares on family's Holocaust experience

A long-time mental health counselor and suicide prevention volunteer committed suicide after saying he couldn't take dreams about his parents' horrific experience during the Holocaust anymore.

Peter Wollheim, 67, a founder member of the Idaho Suicide Prevention Action Network and a retired communications professor, was found dead in his Boise home July 21.

His cause of death was not divulged.

He reportedly left a note saying he was 'tired of having Holocaust dreams' and that he was 'done with life,' according to his only sibling, Ruth Wachter-Carroll, who spoke to People magazine.

'Peter had been very depressed for years, but didn't seek therapy, even though he knew firsthand what people go through and how important it was for them to get help,' Wachter-Carroll told the magazine.

For the past year, Wollheim had been awakened by nightmares of his parents, Norbert and Frieda, who had suffered at death camps in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, although they survived the Nazis. They are now deceased