Tomi reichental biography books

  • Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental, BEM is a Holocaust survivor.
  • 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.
  • The incredible true story of how a small boy survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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    I Was a Boy in Belsen

    March 17, 2014
    I was a Boy in Belsen is the account of the extraordinary life of Tomi Reichental. Tomi was a Slovakian Jew who spent the final months war in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. He was with his mother and elder brother and other relatives. The description of his months of despair in Belsen are indeed horrifying as indeed is the joy of liberation, tempered as it was by the fact that the British soldiers arrived too late for thousands. The Belsen section is a valuable addition to Holocaust history but the book is so much more than that. The reader learns of a childhood blighted by anti-Semitism but one nevertheless in which the strength and family values of the Jewish communities shine through.

    The final part of the book is post-Belsen as the author tells of his return to Slovakia in later 1945, his emigration to Israel until he finally settles in Ireland where, in recent years, he has been talking to educational groups about his holocaust. The book is wonderfully written with passages both of beauty and horror. However, my lasting impression of this great memoir is of it being a great tribute to the human spirit. How a man, brutalised in the most violent way as a young boy, could survive to build such a happy and profitable life for himse
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    ‘At the age of six I began to fear for the future. … By the age of nine I was on the run for my life. … By the time I was ten I had seen all there was to see.’

    An accessible and honest account of the Holocaust that reminds us of the dangers of racism and intolerance, providing lessons that are relevant today. A true story of heroism during this painful horrific time in history.

    Tomi Reichental grew up in a small village, with friendly neighbours and a big, happy family. But things began to change, and Tomi was told he couldn’t play with some of the local children any more. Then the police started to take away friends and family.

    Life changed completely when he was sent a thousand kilometres away, with all the other local Jews, to the terrifying Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

    The Nazis killed millions of people, simply because of their race or religion.

    Tomi tells his story so that such a horrific thing won’t happen again.

    accessible and honest

    Belfast Telegraph

    a powerful tale and deserves to be shared in Irish classrooms and in classrooms around the world

    InTouch Magazine

    a lesson from the past … chillingly relevant for the present

    Evening Echo

    it is a story that needs to be told and I think it would be an amazing class novel

    seomraranga.com

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    Tomi Reichental

    Czechoslovakian Conflagration survivor

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