by Tomi Reichental (Author)
'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.'
Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. He was nine-years old in October 1944 when he was rounded up by the Gestapo in a shop in Bratislava, Slovakia. Along with 12 other members of his family he was taken to a detention camp where the elusive Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner had the power of life and death.
His story is a story of the past. It is also a story for our times. The Holocaust reminds us of the dangers of racism and intolerance, providing lessons that are relevant today.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 09 May 2016
ISBN 10: 184717793X
ISBN 13: 9781847177933
Reichenthal's extraordinary story has been well told in [I Was A Boy in Belsen]
-- Irish Times, Irishman's Diaryinteresting and inspiring
-- Pat Kenny show RTE Radio 1A disturbing tale of survival
-- Sunday Business Posta very likeable book
-- Books IrelandBooks like this need to be read
-- Evening HeraldTomi Reichental was born in 1935 in Slovakia. He was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Tomi has lived in Dublin since 1959 and regularly talks to Irish schools about his wartime experiences. A documentary about Tomi's attempts to meet one of his jailers, Close to Evil, has been shown on TV and in cinemas throughout the world, and helped again to raise the profile of the Holocaust.
Tallaght-born Nicola Pierce is a writer, living in Drogheda.