Tomas Fleischmann's family lived in a beautiful castle in a farming village some distance from Bratislava. When he was six, towards the end of World War II, he was sent to the concentration camp of Terezin where his mother gave birth to his brother Peter. Of the sixteen thousand children there, Tomas was one of one hundred and twenty-three who survived. With his mother and brother, he migrated to Australia where he went to school, first at Quakers Hill, and later established a very successful career in the textile industry.
