The Ticket Collector Who Killed 18 Jews: Britain’s Only Nazi War Crimes Conviction
In a quiet Bermondsey council flat lived an ordinary British Rail ticket collector known as Tony. Neighbours saw a harmless pensioner. Few knew that decades earlier, as Andrei Sawoniuk, he had hunted down Jewish survivors in Nazi-occupied Domachevo and personally executed at least 18 of them.
In 1999 he became the first — and still the only — person ever convicted in a British court under the War Crimes Act. A jury travelled to Belarus. Eyewitnesses who had hidden in the woods finally faced him at the Old Bailey.
This is the full story of Anthony Sawoniuk: the collaborator who escaped justice…
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