5th Year History student, Maeve Crossan, writes in detail about the impact of Tomi Reichental's lecture to senior students on Tuesday, 25th November.
On the 25th November, we were visited by Tomi Reichental, a Holocaust survivor. He felt that as one of the last remaining survivors that he had to share his story and we were very thankful that he did. Hearing it from an eye-withness made it much more real than when you read it in a book.
He spoke of how he avoided those who tried to take his family to camps, of how old friends betrayed them and what the camps were like. The most memorable thing he spoke of was how the other children, as well as himself, would play amongst stacks of bodies in the forest; that the stench didn't bother them after a while. It gave us an idea of how dehumanised the people there became.
Maeve Crossan, 5thYear
Post Script
On Saturday, 6th December Tomi Reichental was awarded International Person of the Year 2014 at the RTÉ Person of the Year Awards. The Student Council, on behalf of everyone at Stratford College, sent him a congratulations card.
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