Wednesday 19 September 2012

Lecture #1

    Every tuesday afternoon in fourth year we have lectures. Our first lecture was from a man called Zoltan Collis who is a Holocaust survivor.He startesd off by telling us his background. He told us about his family, friends and general life before the holocaust affected him. Mr. Collis told us how his fateher was jewish and his mother was christian. Due to his fathers religion Zoltan was taken to a concentraion camp. He was split up from his father and never saw him again.He told us about how difficult and horrendeus life in the concentraion camp was. We watched a video that showed life in the concentraion camp, Burgen-Belson. The video was really graphic and it showed rotting bodies.Collis told us about life in the concentration camp and why it was such a horrible place to live. The concentration camp was liberated in 1945 and Mr. Collis was free. He was brought to Ireland as a refugee and grew up here. I'm glad that i got the opportunity to hear this story because it clearly showed how people were affected by the holocaust even at such a young age. I think that everybody who gets the chance to attend a lecture like this should as it would enchance their view of the holocaust.

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