Tomi :
Massey, Eithne,
Tomi : Tomi Reichental's holocaust story / retold by Eithne Massey ; illustrations by Emma Byrne. - Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2018. - 172 pages ; 20 cm
Tomi Reichental's story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. Tomi, 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. An accessible and honest account of the Holocaust that reminds us of the dangers of racism and intolerance, providing lessons that are relevant today. A true story of heroism during this painful horrific time in history.
9781847179753 (pbk.) : £11.99 £6.99
Reichental, Tomi, 1935- --Juvenile literature.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Juvenile literature.
Non-Fiction 9+.
History.
920
Tomi : Tomi Reichental's holocaust story / retold by Eithne Massey ; illustrations by Emma Byrne. - Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2018. - 172 pages ; 20 cm
Tomi Reichental's story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. Tomi, 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. An accessible and honest account of the Holocaust that reminds us of the dangers of racism and intolerance, providing lessons that are relevant today. A true story of heroism during this painful horrific time in history.
9781847179753 (pbk.) : £11.99 £6.99
Reichental, Tomi, 1935- --Juvenile literature.
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)--Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Juvenile literature.
Non-Fiction 9+.
History.
920