Schlagwort-Archiv: Tomi Reichental

Tribute to Tomi Reichental

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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
Alexandra Senfft in: Irish Times, 2. Juni 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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Foto: Tomi Reichental mit Alexandra Senfft und ihrer Tochter Magdalena bei den Dreharbeiten zu Close to Evil, Bratislava 2014

A Reckoning – Tomi Reichental and Alexandra Senfft

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The Ryan Tubridy Show

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.

The Ryan Tubridy Show, RTE Radio 1, Ireland, November 2022
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Remembering Kristallnacht

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A Reckoning: Jews, Germans & The Holocaust
St Patricks Hall, Dublin Castle
9. November 2022, 18.30 Uhr

Holocaust Awareness Ireland and the Office of Public Works are pleased to present an event to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht.  Entitled  A Reckoning: Jews, Germans & The Holocaust

it is a panel discussion between Tomi Reichental, Oliver Sears and Alexandra Senfft, the granddaughter of Hanns Elard Ludin, Hitler’s envoy to Slovakia who was responsible for the deportation of 70,000 Jews including Tomi Reichental and his family. Conor O’Clery, author and eminence gris of Irish foreign journalism will moderate.