Anthony Sawoniuk (real name in Belarusian: Андрэй Саванюк Andrej Savaniuk; real name in Polish: Antoni Sawoniuk) was born on March 7, 1921, in Domaczewo, Poland. March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

He was proved to be a Nazi war criminal from Poland (his home region was transferred to Soviet jurisdiction after the Second World War as part of the Belorussian SSR). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... ...

He fled the region after the war and lived in England from 1946. In the early 1950's Anthony wrote a letter to his brother, Mikolaj, in Poland, and that was what sealed his fate ultimately. All mail was interrupted by the KGB, and his name, Sawoniuk, had been spelled wrong. And he was already being watched for being a suspected war criminal. Only in the 1990s, however, was it clear that only one person on the list of suspected war criminals had moved the the United Kingdom, and it was there that they arrested him. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГB) is the Russian-language acronym for the Committee for State Security, (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности ▶(?); transliteration: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), and was the umbrella organisation name for (i) the principal Soviet internal Security Agency, (ii) the principal intelligence agency, and...

He was given two life sentences in 1999 for the murder of 18 Jews in his Nazi-occupied hometown (the Brest, Belarus region) during World War Two. 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... Brest (Belarusian: ; also known as Brest-Litovsk and in Polish as Brześć Litewski, Brześć nad Bugiem or Brześć Białoruski; Russian: , Lithuanian: Lietuvos Brasta (literally meaning shallows of Lithuania) is a city (population 290,000 in 2004) in Belarus close to the Polish border where the Western Bug and Mukhavets... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

Sawoniuk was the first and the only person in Great Britain to be convicted under the 1991 War Crimes Act when he stood trial in 1999 at the Old Bailey. The Old Bailey by Mountford (1907) The Central Criminal Court, commonly known as The Old Bailey (a bailey being part of a castle), is a Crown Court (criminal high court) in London, dealing with major criminal cases in the UK. It stands on the site of the mediaeval Newgate Gaol...

He died in Norwich prison at the age of 84 on November 6, 2005. Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch or Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Sawoniuk - a hidden life exposed (BBC)