Tomi Reichental (M / Slovakia, 1935), Holocaust survivor
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Tomi Reichental (Slovakia, 1935) was a Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Slovakia> <Bergen-Belsen>
Biography
Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental (b.1935) was born in the village of Merašice in Western Slovakia in 1935 to Jewish farmers and lived with his family on their farm until he was the age of eight. Under Nazi occupation, to avoid deportation they went into hiding but Tomi was captured in October 1944 with other members of his family. They were taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they stayed until the camp was liberated by the British in 1945. After the war he moved to Ireland.
Literature
I Was a Boy in Belsen (Dublin [Ireland]: O'Brien, 2011)