‘I did not say that he is lying’ : Karski, Lanzmann interview.
‘not make any military sense’ : Van Pelt, ‘Veil’， p. 121.
‘I didn’t know’ : Claude Lanzmann quotes Aron at the start of his film on Jan Karski, The Karski Report , 2010.
small talk with waiters : Klein, ‘Confronting’， p. 278.
‘Robert, I need to talk to you’ : Krell, Sounds from Silence , p. 261.
‘on a cellular level’ : Gerta Vrbová, obituary of Zuza, AJR Journal , p. 15.
‘in denial’ : Author interview with Robin Vrba, 22 October 2021.
‘Should you not be satisfied’ : Klein, ‘Confronting’， pp. 274–5.
Battersea Power Station : Email to the author from Richard Bestic, son of Alan Bestic, 24 August 2020.
something of ‘the SS’ about him : Krell, Sounds from Silence , p. 263.
‘the Gestapo has finally gotten to me’ : Linn, ‘Rudolf Vrba’， p. 209.
‘lucky number’ : Vrba to Zuza Vrbová, 23 April 1998, p. 1, shared with the author by Gerta Vrbová.
he told his daughter : Zuza Vrbová died in 2013, aged fifty-nine.
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