Robin O'Neil is a

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researcher and author. After a career as the British major crimes' investigator who worked on criminal investigations for Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police Service, and London Home Counties Police, he obtained his Masters and Doctorate with the Hebrew and Jewish Department at

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. He now specialises in researching Nazi

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s and the destruction of the European Jewish communities (1933–1945).Steve Farrar (1 September 2000)
"A detective who retraced steps on the road to hell"
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Biography

Robin O'Neil has pursued his work to the Baltic States and former USSR. He has launched a number of investigations into the perpetrators of the Holocaust, particularly those active in

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and occupied

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

during World War II. He has conducted research regarding the ''

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'' (SS) and extermination camp commandants of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. O'Neil has performed extensive source research into the Oskar Schindler story. A historical consultant to several TV documentaries and radio broadcasts in the UK and abroad, he is an honoured guest of Schindler's home town, Svitavy,

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, and is a regular lecturer at universities in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and

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. In his spare time he conducts research into the

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and

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's England. In 2013, after prolonged research, O'Neil completed his work on a new book about the

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic music, Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and ...

family under the Third Reich.

''The Rabka Four''

O'Neil's work ''The Rabka Four - Instruments of Genocide and Grand Larceny. A Warning from History'' was first published completely online in 2011 by the Yizkor Book Project. It was made available by O'Neil to JewishGen for the purpose of fulfilling their mission of disseminating knowledge about the Holocaust. The monograph is devoted to the history of the German SS training facility Sipo-SD Academy in Rabka in occupied Poland where, "under the cloak of war – personal vendetta, corruption, robbery and murder ecameendemic among the SS" functionaries. O'Neil reveals how the euphemistic language spoken within the Nazi State allowed for the sanitization of genocide and the creation of the complete illusion of 'plain speak' in phrases such as 'treatment', 'processing', and 'resettlement' which enabled the SS to turn mass murder into a "bureaucratic paper chase".

Publications

* 1998: ''East European Jewish Affairs'' Vol. 28, 49: "Belzec: The 'Forgotten' Death Camp" * 1999: ''East European Jewish Affairs'' Vol. 29, 85: A Reassessment of the Number of Victims Belzec * 2008: ''Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone To Life''. Jewish Heritage Committee, New York * 2009: ''Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide''. Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York * 2010: ''The Rabka Four - Instruments of Genocide and Grand Larceny.'' Spiderwize, London * 2013: ''The Mahler Family Legacy Under the Third Reich''

E-book publications

''Belzec: The Destruction Of The Jews In The District Of Galicia''

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Other work

* Educational establishments and Synagogues, UK. Other Aspects 2000 * Belzec Archaeology lecture:

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2006 * The Elchanan and Miriam Elkes Memorial Lecture "Stepping Stones to Genocide: Aktion Reinhardt and the Holocaust" * Holocaust Education: Co-founder, Historical Consultant and contributor to www.holocaustresearchproject.org * Consultant and participant on

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and television projects in Israel, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom * 1998–2000: Archaeology. Seconded to the

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(Poland) archaeological survey on the site of Belzec Death Camp

References

* Amazon (2015)
Books : "Robin O'Neil".
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