Safe Haven: War Crimes, Justice, and Memory

Safe Haven: War Crimes, Justice, and Memory

Tuesday, March 25
7pm GMT

in collaboration with the Finchley Reform Synagogue Belarus Project

Jon Silverman in Conversation with Colin Shindler, about his book Safe Haven‘.

The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk a Belarusian Nazi collaborator from the town of Damachava in the Brest Region, in Southern Belarus.

Jon Silverman is Emeritus Professor of Media Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire. He’s a former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent in which role he won the Sony Radio Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of the UK’s investigations into Nazi collaborators. He is the author of four books, including the first British examination of the phenomenon of crack cocaine and the Yardies – ‘Crack of Doom’ (Headline, 1993). Other works are ‘Innocence Betrayed’ (Polity, 2002) about paedophilia, media and society; and ‘Crime, Policy and the Media’ (Routledge, 2012). His latest (co-authored) work is ’Safe Haven’ (OUP, 2023), examining how Britain provided impunity for hundreds of Nazi collaborators from Eastern Europe. He reported from both the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals and has written extensively for journals on international war crimes justice, including the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa.

Colin Shindler is emeritus professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He became the first professor of Israel Studies in the UK in 2008. He is the author of 15 books. The most recent are:
– Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons, published by Cambridge University Press in February 2023.
– The Routledge Handbook on Zionism which he edited was published in June 2024. Forty scholars from many parts of the world have contributed to this work.

An opportunity to learn more about the FRS Belarus Project and the work being done in Belarus in collaboration with The Together Plan.

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Book tickets:

Date

25 Mar 2025

Time

GMT
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Cost

£10.00
Finchley Reform Synagogue

Location

Finchley Reform Synagogue
101 Fallow Ct Ave, London, N12 0BE
Website
https://www.frs.org.uk/