'We said never again, but it's happening all the time' says Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental

“We saw it in Syria, we saw it in Afghanistan. Wherever the Russians put their foot in, what they leave behind, is a tragedy, an unbelievable tragedy."

Tomi Reichental at his home in Dartry. Picture: Moya Nolan

Watching the women and children of Ukraine carrying their "little bags" as they flee Putin’s bombs brings Tomi Reichental right back to when the Nazis came for him.

He can see himself in the boys of Kharkiv and Sumy, forced from their homes and catapulted into a maelstrom of upheaval and violence.