Autor/-in: Sereny Gitta

Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. In 1949 she married the American Vogue. photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where they brought up a son and a daughter and where she began her career as a journalist. Her journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. She wrote mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine. , the Sunday Times. , The Times. , the Independent. and the Independent on Sunday Review. She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. Her books include: The Medallion. , a novel; The Invisible Children. , on child prostitution; Into That Darkness. ; and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012.