Sereny was a veteran reporter who investigated some of the most appalling crimes and events of her time, including studies on the killers of James Bulger, the murderer Mary Bell and the Nazi ...

Gitta Sereny chose for her subjects the sort of perpetrators of “evil” that other writers feared to touch — the child murderers Mary Bell and the killers of James Bulger, the Nazi architect Albert ...

Treblinka extermination camp. Some 700,000-900,000 Jews and 2,000 gypsies murdered there. Franz Stangl, Kommandant, described his first impressions: “ “I stepped ...

Biographers are well aware, in taking on a serious project, that they are about to learn more about another human being than that human being may have ever learnt about him- or herself. The months and ...

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I couldn’t let this occasion pass without celebrating the life and work of author and journalist Gitta Sereny, who died earlier this month aged 91. In an era distinguished by the ersatz she was that ...