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A Reckoning – Tomi Reichental & Alexandra Senfft
Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental and Alexandra Senfft, the granddaughter of a Nazi war criminal who had a part in the deaths of some of his family members. They will be speaking in Dublin Castle this evening called A Reckoning: Jews, Germans and The Holocaust.
Ryan Tubridy Show, RTE Radio 1
November 9, 2022
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A Reckoning
Remembering Kristallnacht: Germans, Jews & The Holocaust
Dublin Castle 9th November 2022
Alexandra Senfft with Tomi Reichental, Oliver Sears and Conor O’Cleary
Holocaust horror can yield deeper insight into dealing with other dilemmas of history
Sympathy for victims and survivors of atrocity only goes so far: we must empathise with people who need help now
Derek Scally, The Irish Times, October 31, 2022
“Through her pioneering work, Senfft explores questions of identity and trauma among perpetrator descendants. That work has brought her into contact with survivors and their families and she has appeared in two documentaries with Tomi Reichental…
“I bear no guilt but have taken on the responsibility to face the past,” she says. “We must break the silence in order to restore the victim and survivors’ dignity and to break the spell of the victimisers.”
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A Reckoning
Jews, Germans & The Holocaust
Dublin Castle, 9 November, 2022
John Boyne: ‘Would The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas be published today?
“Only in the last years have grandchildren of Nazi perpetrators begun to break the silence on their family history in a way their parents could not. Leading the way is Alexandra Senfft – a close friend of this reporter’s – whose grandfather Hanns Ludin was Nazi governor in occupied Slovakia”
by Derek Scally, The Irish Times, September 20, 2022
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Draconian punishments for boat people
Europe’s contempt for refugees’ human rights
At the EU’s outer borders, the right of migrants to a fair asylum procedure continues to be systematically disregarded. Take Greece, for example: in the worst case scenario, those shipwrecked may even face a lengthy prison sentence.
Alexandra Senfft reports for Qantara.de from Syros
qantara.de, Deutsche Welle, 20 June 2022
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Unlocking the Stalemate
The struggle of returning to negotiations between Israel and Palestine
Weltzeit, Deutsche Welle, Juni 2022
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Unrepentant Nazis, in Their Own Words
‘The sense of urgency is palpable. The old Nazis are dying’: How a British film-maker launched a decade-long project to interview the last Nazi eyewitnesses to the Holocaust, and why Germany refused to fund him
Haaretz Israel 22 May 2022
White Debt
Thomas Harding tells the story of the Demerara rebellion, and explores the legacy of Britain’s role in slavery and questions of personal and national responsibility.
BBC, Radio 4, March 6, 2022
Thomas Harding interviewing Alexandra Senfft, starting 29:00 minutes
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