Title: I was a boy in Belsen
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.
Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jews, Biography, Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp), Jews, biography, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), Slovakia, biography, Polish Personal narratives, Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen, Judenvernichtung, Bergen-Belsen
Places: Slovakia
People: Tomi Reichental (1935-)