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The Ticket Collector from Belarus - An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial (Hardcover)
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The Ticket Collector from Belarus - An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial (Hardcover)
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'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail;
'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times;
'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place
in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but
only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus can the full story be
told. The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story
of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk
were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo, a holiday and health
resort in what is now Belarus. During the events that followed the
Nazi invasion in 1941, they became the bitterest of enemies. After
the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and 'Andrusha the
bastard' to England, where he found work as a British Rail ticket
collector in London. They next confronted each other in the Old
Bailey, over half a century later, where one was the principal
prosecution witness, and the other charged with a fraction of the
number of murders he was alleged to have committed. There was no
physical evidence, just one man's word against another, leaving the
jury with a series of agonising dilemmas: Could any witness
statement be trusted so long after the event? Was Andrusha a brutal
killer, a hapless pawn or a scapegoat? And were his furious
protests a sign of guilt or the justified anger of an innocent old
man? Mike Anderson was gripped by the story, and so began his quest
to find the truth about this astonishing case and the people at its
heart. As he discovered, it was even more remarkable than he could
ever have imagined.
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