The Ticket Collector from Belarus: A Talk by Author Mike Anderson

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Author Mike Anderson will talk about his book, The Ticket Collector from Belarus which tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo, now Belarus, but after the Nazi invasion in 1941 they became bitter 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 a 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.

Author Mike Anderson was gripped by the story, and began a quest to find the truth about this astonishing case and the people at its heart. As he will describe, it was more remarkable than he could ever have imagined.

The talk will take place in The Salisbury Museum Lecture Hall.

Pre-booking is essential.