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Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-born biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.〔Neild, Barry. ("Gitta Sereny dies at 91" ), ''The Guardian'', 18 June 2012.〕 She was the author of five books, including ''The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered'' (1972) and ''Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth'' (1995). Sereny was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her book on Albert Speer in 1995, and the Stig Dagerman Prize in 2002. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 for services to journalism. ==Biography== Sereny was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. Her father was Hungarian Protestant aristocrat Ferdinand Serény, who died when she was two. Her mother was a former actress from Hamburg, Margit Herzfeld, of German origin.〔My Life with Ludwig von Mises by Margit von Mises〕 Her stepfather was the economist Ludwig von Mises.〔The legacy of Ludwig Von Mises by Peter J. Boettke, Peter T. Leeson, p. xiv〕 When she was thirteen, her train journey to a boarding school in the United Kingdom was delayed in Nuremberg where she attended one of the annual Nuremberg rallies. After writing about the rally for a class assignment she was given ''Mein Kampf'' to read by her teacher so she might be able to understand what she saw there. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, she moved to France, where she worked with orphans during the German occupation until she had to flee the country because of her connection to the French Resistance.〔http://www.spikemagazine.com/0201gittasereny.php〕 After World War II, she worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration with refugees in Allied-occupied Germany. Among her tasks was reuniting with their biological families children who had been kidnapped by the Nazis to be raised as "Aryans".〔Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 511 ISBN 0-679-77663-X〕 This could be a traumatic experience because the children did not always remember their original family, but when she accompanied a train-load of such children back to Poland she saw the delight of the original family members at the restoration of the children.〔 She attended the Nuremberg Trials for four days in 1945 as an observer and it was here that she first saw Albert Speer about whom she would later write the book ''Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth''. It was for this book that she was awarded the 1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was also later adapted by David Edgar as the play ''Albert Speer'' and directed by Trevor Nunn at the National Theatre in 2000. The book even won the admiration of David Irving (see below), who wrote, "Minor flaws aside (I sent her eight pages of errors from prison), her biography of Albert Speer was brilliant. It was sent to me in that Austrian prison, and I could not put it down."〔(Real History, and a Radical's Diary ) Entry for Monday, 18 June 2012, fpp.co.uk, accessed 25-08-14〕 She married Don Honeyman in 1948 and moved to London where they raised their two children. Don Honeyman (who died 1 June 2011) was a photographer, who worked for ''Vogue'', ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Times'', among other publications. The poster of Che Guevara on a red background (1968) is one of his best known creations. From the mid-sixties and throughout the 1970s she wrote extensively for ''The Daily Telegraph Magazine'' under the editorship of John Anstey. These articles were often about young people, the social services, children and their relationships with their parents and society. This led to her covering the trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell (found guilty of murdering two children) and would further lead to her first investigative book on this case. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gitta Sereny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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