Holocaust survivor is keynote O’Flaherty speaker

The keynote speaker at this year’s commemoration of Second World War hero Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty will be Tomi Reichental, a survivor of the Holocaust.

Mr Reichental, 79, was incarcerated in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He has lived in Dublin since the 1960s and was the subject of a recent television documentary, Close to Evil.

The 2014 memorial programme begins on Thursday, October 30, with a series of events to mark the 51st anniversary of the monsignor’s death, including the opening of an extended exhibition in Killarney Library.