Books & Blokes Breakfast

Tomas Fleming

24 May, 2016

Our next Books & Blokes Breakfast will feature what will no doubt be a moving presentation by Holocaust survivor and Joeys grandfather, Tom Fleming (formerly Fleischmann).

Lolli’s Apple is a memoir of a young boy’s innocent view of the Holocaust during the last years of World War 2, Lolli’s Apple is written from the perspective of 6 year old Tomas, who along with his pregnant Mother Lolli, experience all the horrors of transportation to first Auschwitz, and then finally Terezinstadt concentration camp. With death all around them, Tomas’s resilience and ability to adapt, and his Mother’s resolve to keep her little family (later including newborn, Peter) alive is nothing less than astounding.

About the Author

Tomas Fleischmann was born in what is now Slovakia on 27 June 1938. Tomas is one of only 123 survivors of 16,000 children who went through Terezin Concentration Camp during WWII. He and his pregnant mother Lolli survived arrest, internment at Szered Camp, transportation to Auschwitz and internment at Terezin where Lolli gave birth to another son Peter.

Tomas, his mother Lolli and his brother Peter later migrated to Australia where Tomas changed his name to Tom Fleming.

Tom later attended Parramatta High School in Sydney and practiced an illustrious career in textiles. He has also won several national awards for his inventions. Tom is a regular speaker about his holocaust experience with Courage to Care a major anti-bullying project that has visited schools and communities across regional and metro Australia reaching almost 250,000 people.

Tom is also a member of the Child Survivor Group in Sydney.

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