My Voice

The My Voice Project is a unique initiative by The Fed, Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. The My Voice Project empowers Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK to share their entire life stories including experiences before, during and after the war years. This project involves a bespoke methodological approach, producing books that preserve their unique voices. The My Voice Project ensures firsthand accounts are remembered and valued for future generations, highlighting the critical role of individual perspectives in ensuring a deeper historical understanding.

Tomi Komoly - Survival, Escape, and New Horizons chronicles the life story of Holocaust survivor, Tomi Komoly, born in 1936 in Budapest, the only child of a loving Jewish family.

The book recounts the ordeals endured by Hungarian Jews under the Horthy regime and Nazi occupation. It provides an account of Tomi's survival after he was forced to move to a constricted 'yellow star house' and eventually found shelter with a Hungarian family. Post-war, facing the oppression of the communist regime in Hungary, Tomi fled to Vienna, then moved to England having secured a scholarship to study engineering. He built a successful career and settled in Manchester with his family.

Recently, Tomi received the British Empire Medal for services to Holocaust education.

Survival, Escape, and New Horizons is part of the My Voice book collection.