I was a boy in Belsen
By: Tomi Reichental ; with Nicola Pierce
Contributors: Pierce, Nicola
Publisher: O'Brien
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781847172273
Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust; Jews; Biography; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Description: "'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."--Publisher's description.