At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of Nazi madness at Bergen-Belsen. He survived the brutality of the SS guards and the ravages of starvation, disease and utmost squalor. All but one of his family died there. Adopted by one of his liberators and brought to Ireland, Zoltan is now ready to speak. His story is one of deepest pain and greatest joy, of how he lost one family and found another, of espacing a broken Europe and how he was able to build himself the life he was very nearly denied.
About the book
At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of Nazi madness at Bergen-Belsen. He survived the brutality of the SS guards and the ravages of starvation, disease and utmost squalor. All but one of his family died there. Adopted by one of his liberators and brought to Ireland, Zoltan is now ready to speak. His story is one of deepest pain and greatest joy, of how he lost one family and found another, of espacing a broken Europe and how he was able to build himself the life he was very nearly denied.