The ticket collector from Belarus : the extraordinary true story of the Holocaust and Britain's only war crimes trial /
by Anderson, Mike, (Author of The ticket collector from Belarus); Hanson, Neil.
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BookPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2023Description: 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781398503298 (pbk.) :; 1398503290 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5318 ANDSubject(s): Savaniuk, Andrei Andreevich, 1921-2005 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Blushtein, Ben-Zion, 1924-2012 | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Belarus | War crime trials -- Great Britain | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | Biography: historical, political & military | European history | Legal historySummary: 'The Ticket Collector from Belarus' tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood companions in 1930s Domachevo, once a holiday and health resort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then a struggling township in Belarus. During the events which followed its Nazi occupation in 1942, they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and 'Andrusha the bastard' found work as a London Transport ticket collector. They next confronted each other in the Old Bailey, 57 years later, where one was the principal prosecution witness, and the other had been charged with a fraction of the number of murders he almost certainly committed. Sawoniuk's guilt is rarely in doubt, but whether he will be convicted certainly is. Mike Anderson was gripped by the story, and so began his quest to find out all he could about the story.
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Originally published: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Ticket Collector from Belarus' tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood companions in 1930s Domachevo, once a holiday and health resort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then a struggling township in Belarus. During the events which followed its Nazi occupation in 1942, they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and 'Andrusha the bastard' found work as a London Transport ticket collector. They next confronted each other in the Old Bailey, 57 years later, where one was the principal prosecution witness, and the other had been charged with a fraction of the number of murders he almost certainly committed. Sawoniuk's guilt is rarely in doubt, but whether he will be convicted certainly is. Mike Anderson was gripped by the story, and so began his quest to find out all he could about the story.
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