Tomi Reichental, who has died at age of 90, made the Holocaust real for Ireland in a way no textbook or documentary ever could. For many people in this country, especially for many Irish schoolchildren, Reichental was the first person they had ever met who could say in the most direct and devastating sense: “I was there.” Here was a gentle, unassuming man, someone who seemed to carry warmth and goodness so naturally, who brought them face to face with the boy he had once been in Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi concentration camp where tens of thousands died from starvation and...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
