Author, publisher, and investigator of Nazi war crimes in Poland, Dr. Robin O'Neil is a former police major crimes investigator who worked at the cutting edge of major criminal investigations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Formerly of Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan and Home Counties Police service, he then took up the challenge of academia. After obtaining his master's and Doctorate with University College London, he now specializes in Nazi war crimes and the destruction of the European Jewish communities (1933-1945).A Russian speaker, he has pursued his work to the Baltic States and former USSR. He has launched several major investigations into the perpetrators of the Holocaust, particularly those individuals who carried out and engineered the destruction of European Jewry in Lithuania and Poland. His past police service and rank enable him to look closely into the characters of the SS and death camp commandants of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.Dr. O'Neil is universally acknowledged as the central research source for the Schindler story. A historical consultant to several TV documentaries and radio broadcasts in the UK and abroad, he is an honored guest of Schindler's hometown, Svitavy in the Czech Republic, and is a regular lecturer at universities in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Eastern Europe.
