The granddaughter of a prominent Nazi has said she will be “forever grateful” for the opportunity to meet and discuss the past with Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental.
Alexandra Senfft on Newstalk, Claire Byrne Show, Ireland, 4 June 2026
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My Nazi grandfather sent Tomi Reichental to Bergen-Belsen death camp
Despite all the suffering he endured, the Holocaust survivor chose compassion over hate
Irish Times, June 2, 2026
I was deeply anxious during the train journey from Vienna to Bratislava, the Slovak capital, in 2014. Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental was expecting me there, together with Gerry Gregg’s film crew. They were shooting the documentary Close to Evil.
Tomi was born in Czechoslovakia but moved to Ireland in 1959. He had been a young boy when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1944. Tomi survived, but 35 of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust; his grandmother died before his eyes in the camp.
My grandfather, however, was Hanns E Ludin, the “envoy of the Third Reich to Slovakia”, and it was he who signed the deportation orders. Ludin was convicted as a war criminal and executed in Bratislava in 1947.
Tomi’s and my family histories were thus tragically intertwined….
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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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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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