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Sawoniuk was born on March 7 , 1921 , in Domaczewo, Poland , a town now known as Damachava, Brest, Belarus (his home region was transferred to Soviet jurisdiction after the Second World War as part of the Belorussian SSR ). Sawoniuk fled the region after the war and lived in England from 1946 . In the early 1950s he wrote a letter to his brother, Mikołaj, in Poland, and that was what sealed his fate ultimately. All mail was intercepted by the KGB , and his name, Sawoniuk, had been spelled wrongly. And he was already being watched as 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 to the United Kingdom , and it was there that he was arrested. Sawoniuk was tried at the Old Bailey in London in 1999 and given two life sentences for the murder of 18 Jews in his Nazi -occupied hometown during World War Two . He 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. He died in Norwich prison at the age of 84 on November 6 , 2005 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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