The staff and students of Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount were honoured to welcome Tomi Reichental to our school yesterday, Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
Tomi Reichental is a survivor of the Holocaust, having being imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944.
Mr. Reichental delivered a lecture on his experiences during World War 2 to a captive audience of senior students, History students, visiting students from Coláiste Eoin, Finglas and a gathering of past pupils and parents.
The talk covered his early childhood in Slovakia and the inhuman process of being segregated as a Jewish person, hunted, rounded up and being deported to a concentration camp along with several members of his family.
While detailing the atrocities of the past, Tomi also connected these historic events to current events; comparing the forced mass-migration of the Jewish diaspora across Europe in the 1930s to the current and on-going Syrian refugee crisis.
It was a poignant, humbling and emotional experience to witness such an event of oral history, and Warrenmount was truly honoured to host such an inspirational gentleman as Tomi Reichental.
For more information, click on the following links:
http://hetireland.org/wp-cont…/…/2015/02/Tomi-Reichental.pdf
http://hetireland.org/…/surviv…/holocaust-survivors-ireland/