The death has occurred of one of the last remaining Irish survivors of the Holocaust.
Zoltan Zinn-Collis lived for decades in Co. Kildare and died yesterday aged 72 at his home in Athy.
He was the son of a Jewish labourer and a Hungarian Protestant woman.
His parents, a sister and his brother all died in the concentration camps.
The head of the Red Cross Irish Dr. Bob Collis adopted Zoltan and his sister Edith and raised them in Ireland.
Mr. Zinn-Collis spent his time addressing schools about his experiences.
He is survived by his wife and 4 daughters.
'I was never a child"
He was born in in Kazmarok in Slovakia however the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland says this maybe just where the birth was registered.
Recounting his experience Zinn-Collis has said "I was never a child. Normal children have fun, they run around, get into trouble, fall down, get picked up, get kissed better, then run around some more. But I was never a child".
"For when I was a child in years, my home was Belsen. The games I played, I played around 20,000 rotting corpses waiting to be buried, but with no one to bury them".
his mother died the day the Belsen camp was liberated on April 15th 1945.
The short film below recounts survivors experiences, including those of Zoltan Zinn-Collis:
