I Seek a Kind Person

One extraordinary story after another… not only forensically well-researched but tender, evocative and deeply moving – Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape ArtistA powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it – Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare With Amber EyesJulian’s book is profoundly affecting, part memoir, part detective story, part history, at once elegiac and fascinating, it is so deeply relevant for our times, I zipped through it withy the deepest personal interest – Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetIncredible… and so beautifully told. One of those books that reminds you that great sweeps of history are made up of individual human lives, as real and hopeful as any of us – Hadley FreemanA compelling account of love, loss and great courage… Beautiful, powerfully told and deserving of the widest possible audience – Fergal Keane, author of The MadnessA terrifying and enthralling dissection of Europe’s greatest crime. Part memoir, part detective story - Borger ensures we know the full horror of the Holocaust, through his own family’s experience. This work is a crucial part of the Holocaust testimonies - a dark story which we need to keep front and centre – Alan RusbridgerA moving account of the life changing impact of acts of kindness to strangers in need… a salutary reminder for our own times – Martin Sixsmith, author of The Lost Child of Philomena LeeIntensely moving… an utterly absorbing read – Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You HereRemarkable stories told with love, insight and respect… This book is more than a poignant eulogy - it has important lessons for the modern era – David MilibandAn extraordinary book… a work of meticulous investigation… You may think you’ve read everything you need to about the Holocaust, but you haven’t – Lindsey Hilsum, author of In ExtremisMagnificent… One of the best books I have read on the “second generation” literature – Christophe Boltanski, author of The Safe HouseRaw, unflinching and honest – Baroness Arminka Helic of Millbank, former Special Advisor to the UK Foreign Secretary

Julian Borger is the Guardian’s World Affairs Editor, based in Washington. He covered the Bosnian war for the BBC and the Guardian and returned to the Balkans to report on the Kosovo conflict in 1999. He has also served as the Guardian’s Middle East correspondent and its Washington Bureau Chief.

Borger was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism, for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. He was also in the team awarded the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal and the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award in the UK. He won the One World Media Press Award in 2016 for a feature story on the investigation of war crimes in Syria.