| Description |
368 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Introduction / gerry Gregg -- pt. I. Normal Life Changes -- Our Home in Merasice -- Zid Zid Zid -- Uncle Desider Reichental, the Surgeon -- Everything Changes -- Hunted-Operation 'Chytacka' -- Detention and Deportation -- Arnold Reichental, the Farmer: My Father -- Uncle Oskar Reichental, the Architect -- Uncle Artur Scheimovitz, the Lawyer -- pt. II. Bergen-Belsen -- Life in Bergen-Belson -- Settling In -- Evil Women in Red Lipstick -- 'The Beast of Belsen' -- 'Death Marches' to Belsen -- 'Muselmann' -- Typhus -- Liberation, April 1945 -- After Liberation -- Home Again -- pt. III. After Belsen -- Later Life -- Bratislava -- A New Life in Israel and Beyond -- A Generation Passes Away -- Reunions and Revisits -- Return to Bergen-Belsen. |
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Reichental, Tomi, 1935-
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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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Jews -- Slovakia -- Biography.
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Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Slovakia -- Biography.
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Reichental, Tomi, 1935- (OCoLC)fst01970828
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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) (OCoLC)fst00723559
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Jewish children in the Holocaust. (OCoLC)fst00982706
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Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
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Slovakia. (OCoLC)fst01203007
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Pierce, Nicola, author.
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| ISBN |
184717793X |
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9781847177933 |
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