Rescued from the horror of genocide by the ‘Irish Schindler’

Today marks Holocaust Memorial Day, but this year’s Irish events will be missing a significant voice, writes Deirdre Cashion

AN EMPTY chair at today’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration will serve as a painful reminder that the community has lost one of its most passionate and colourful commentators on the horrors of genocide.

Holocaust survivor Zoltan Zinn-Collis, who passed away last December, aged 72, at his home in Athy, Co Kildare, will be sadly missed by those who gather to remember the victims of Nazi atrocities.