Tomi Reichental – The Testimony of a Holocaust Survivor
2nd June 2026
Tomi Reichental – The Testimony of a Holocaust SurvivorTomi Reichental was born in 1935 in the village of Merašice in rural Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). In 1944 he was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (pic above from the Imperial War Museums collections) along with his mother, brother and grandmother. He survived the camp and since 1959 he has lived in Ireland.
In February 2020, as part of a wider collaboration with the Holocaust Education Trust, Tomi spoke with Scoilnet about his wartime experience.
This is being reposted in tribute to Tomi, who has sadly passed away recently at the age of 90.
