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Zinn-Collis is the son of a Jewish labourer and a Hungarian Protestant woman.
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Zoltan Zinn-Collis
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He was one of only five living survivors of the Holocaust in Ireland. He died in his Athy home in Ireland on December 10 2012. Zoltan"s brother Aladar developed Tuberculosis and died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
On April 15, 1945, Zoltan"s mother died in Belsen.
On the same day, the Red Cross had come to save them. His father, Adolf Zinn, was suspected to have died in Ravensbruck in 1944.
The head of the Red Cross was Bob Collis, an Irish doctor. When Doctor Collis first gathered Zoltan in his arms, the boy declared in German: "My father is dead.
Today Zoltan became a manager of some of Ireland"s leading hotels.
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December 13, 2012 (aged 72) -
Nationality
Slovakian -
Religion
Protestant