Zoltan Zinn Collis
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Zoltan Zinn-Collis is a Slovakian survivor of the Holocaust. He is only one of five living survivors of the Holocaust in Ireland
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Protestant woman. Collis had two sisters and one brother, the youngest sister being killed during the Holocaust at the age of 1 and a half. Zoltan's brother Aladar developed TB
and died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
in 1945. On April 15, 1945, Zoltan's mother died in Belsen. On the same day, the Red Cross had come to save them. His father, Adolf Zinn, was suspected to have died in Ravensbruck in 1944. His older sister, Edit, also survived the Holocaust and was brought to Ireland
after the war.
Ireland
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Family
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Protestant woman. Collis had two sisters and one brother, the youngest sister being killed during the Holocaust at the age of 1 and a half. Zoltan's brother Aladar developed TB
TB
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and died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle...
in 1945. On April 15, 1945, Zoltan's mother died in Belsen. On the same day, the Red Cross had come to save them. His father, Adolf Zinn, was suspected to have died in Ravensbruck in 1944. His older sister, Edit, also survived the Holocaust and was brought to Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
after the war.
Life in Ireland
The head of the Red Cross was Bob Collis, an Irish doctor. When Dr Collis first gathered Zoltan in his arms, the boy declared in German: "My father is dead. You are now my father". Bob Collis eventually adopted Zoltan and Edit and raised the two orphaned children in Ireland with the support of his wife Phyllis. Today Zoltan is in his 60s and a retired manager of some of Ireland's leading hotels. He married an Irish girl and they raised four daughteBooks
On September 28, Zoltan's book on his life during the Holocaust, 'Final Witness', was published by MaverickExternal links
- http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/witness-to-a-hell-on-earth-134792.html
- http://www.maverickhouse.com/author.html?aid=13&title=Zoltan%20Zinn-Collis&no_cache=1