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February 14, 2007

Successful Local History Meeting

A fantastic crowd turned out in the Kildare Education Centre to hear Zoltan Zinn Collis's excellent talk on his life and experiences from the Concentration Camp at Bergen Belsen to Kilkea in Co. Kildare.

Mr. Zoltan Zinn Collis of Kilkea, Co. Kildare gave a vivid personal account of his life from his early experiences in Slovakia through the horrors of the Nazi Concentration Camp at Bergen Belsen to his rescue and smuggling to Ireland by Irish doctor Bob Collis. You could hear a pin drop in the room as the capacity crowd shared with difficulty the extraordinary personal experiences of Zoltan who was sent to Belsen with his family in late 1944 at the age of four. After hearing the talk I would simply urge people to look for his recently published autobiography - 'Final Witness' for this story can only be told in Zoltan's own words.

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Mr. Zoltan Zinn-Collis at the Cill Dara Historical Society on Wednesday 7 February 2007

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Congratulations to Joe Connelly of the Cill Dara Historical Society for organising Zoltan's visit and to the people of Kildare for a marvellous turn-out. It is great to see the Society going from strength to strength with many new members being added to the list. Full details of the Cill Dara Historical Society 2007 programme are available on this site.

For an excellent review of Mr. Zinn-Collis's book visit Irish Emigrant Online at

http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=49&iArticleID=60069

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A fantastic crowd turned out in the Kildare Education Centre to hear Zoltan Zinn Collis's excellent talk on his life and experiences from the Concentration Camp at Bergen Belsen to Kilkea in Co. Kildare.

Posted by mariocorrigan at February 14, 2007 11:12 PM