Caroline Moorehead

How the net finally closed on the Nazi henchman Andrei Sawoniuk

Fifty-two years after his escape from Belarus, the SS collaborator was finally tracked down for trial at the Old Bailey and life imprisonment

Nazi henchman Andrei Sawoniuk, photographed in 1948. [Alamy]
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  • The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of the Holocaust and Britain’s Only War Crimes Trial

    Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 350, £20

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