Tomi Reichental, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has died at the age of 90.

Reichental was born in 1935 to a Jewish farming family in Czechoslovakia. He and his family were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944.

He lost 35 close family members during the Holocaust.

Reichental moved to Ireland in 1959 and settled in Dublin.

In 2019 he spent two weeks in Northern Ireland speaking to school students and community groups.

He addressed hundreds of students at St Catherine's College in Armagh and met with groups in Belfast.

Reichental published his autobiography, I Was a Boy in Belsen, in 2011.

President Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin issued statements expressing their sadness at his death.

The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland described him as one of Ireland's most remarkable voices of remembrance and education.