I rode the unicorn all the way to the nearest city, Bravil, and left it outside the gate while I went inside. When I came out, there was a dead minotaur (thank you, Bravil guard) – but no unicorn.

And so the prisoners turned to one thought: escape. Ponar is dotted with new monuments to Jewish victims, after the first was demolished by the Soviets in 1952. Christian Als Richard Freund ...