Tomi reichental biography

          Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental, BEM (born ) is a Holocaust survivor.!

          Tomi was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935, the year of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws. Tomi and his family were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944 and lost 35 close family members in the Holocaust.

          I was born in Slovakia in I was just nine years old when I was captured by the Nazis along with my mother, brother, grandmother, aunt and cousin.

        1. Tomi Reichental is an 85 year-old Irish-Slovak survivor of Bergen Belsen.
        2. Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental, BEM (born ) is a Holocaust survivor.
        3. Tomáš "Tomi" Reichental, BEM is a Holocaust survivor.
        4. Tomi Reichental was born into a Jewish family in Slovenia in His father was a farmer in a small village.

          5. He came to Ireland in 1960 and has lived here ever since.

          “When I arrived [at Bergen-Belsen] in 1944, it was ‘hell on earth’.”

          I am a Jew, and I am a survivor of the Holocaust.

          I was born in Slovakia in 1935. 

          I was just nine years old when I was captured by the Nazis along with my mother, brother, grandmother, aunt and cousin. We were herded into a cattle car and from that moment onwards, we were treated worse than animals.

          There was no privacy or hygiene, the stench and conditions were unbearable. 

          Eventually, after seven nights, the cattle train stopped.

          Tomi Reichental was born in in Slovakia.

          The doors were opened, and we were greeted by shouts from the SS with guns pointing and barking dogs. We had arrived at our destination – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. I was there from November