Sereny, Gitta
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- English Wikipedia, viewed January 26, 2026(Gitta Sereny, CBE; born March 13, 1921, in Vienna; died June 14, 2012, in Cambridge, England; Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who became known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including the convicted murderer Mary Bell and Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka)
- German Wikipedia, viewed January 26, 2026(Gitta Sereny; Austrian-British author of Hungarian heritage; following the Anschluss, she fled from Austria to Switzerland, then to France and ultimately on to the United States; she settled in London following World War II)
- New York times, dateline June 23, 2012, viewed online on January 26, 2026:obituary (Gitta Sereny, Author Who Focused on Evildoers, Dies at 91; daughter of a Hungarian father and a German mother; married the Vogue photographer Don Honeyman in 1948; in private life, she was known as Gitta Sereny Honeyman)
- Sereny, Gitta. The medallion, 1957.
- The guardian, viewed online on June 19, 2012:obituary (Gitta Sereny; born March 13, 1921, in Vienna; died June 14, 2012; writer and journalist known for her books on Mary Bell and members of the Third Reich; strove to understand the nature of evil)
- Author's The medallion, 1957.
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Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 1921 – 14 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who became known for her interviews and profiles of infamous 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. Born and initially raised in Austria, 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.
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