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Tomi Reichental
Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivor
Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental, BEM[1] (born 1935) is a Holocaust survivor.
He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935 to Jewish farmers and lived with his family on their farm until he was the age of eight. At this age laws started coming in that prohibited the movement and rights of Jewish people and that is when he and his family went into hiding.[2] He, his mother, his brother, and his grandmother were caught and taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944 where they remained until the camp was liberated by the British in 1945.
More than 30 members of his family were killed during the Holocaust.[3]
He moved to Ireland in 1959 but did not speak about his experiences for half a century.[3]
Reichental is known for his talks about his experience of The Holocaust as a child.
As of 2014[update] he is one of three Holocaust survivors residing in Ireland.[4] He gives talks in