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Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jews and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz. 

Part history, part biography, part true crime, Hanns and Rudolf chronicles the untold story of Belsize Square’s very own Hanns Alexander, the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals.  The book also features the founding of the Belsize Square Synagogue and the rescue of the Alexander Torah from Nazi Germany. “This important and moving book describes the unlikely intersection of two very different lives—that of Hanns Alexander, the son of a prosperous German family in Berlin who became a refugee in London in the 1930s and Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Well-researched and grippingly written it provides a unique insight into the fate of Germany under National Socialism.” -(Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University) Entrance is £10. Please book through the synagogue office so that we can ensure we have a cup of tea and cake for you on the night. The book will also be on sale on the night and all proceeds will go towards the synagogue.