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Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, 27th January, marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental talks to Elaine McGee about his ordeal. Tomi, now living in Ireland, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935 to Jewish farmers and lived with his family on their farm until he was the age of eight, when he and his family went into hiding. In 1944 he, his mother, his brother and his grandmother were caught and taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944 where they stayed until the camp was liberated by the British in 1945. Whilst he and his immediate family survived, 35 other family members were lost.