Alan Bestic
Alan "Sammy" Bestic (11 July 1921 – 12 May 2014) was an Irish journalist. The author of several books, including The Importance of Being Irish (1969), he became best known for having ghostwritten the memoirs of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and co-wrote the Vrba–Wetzler report (1944).[1]
Bestic originally wrote up Vrba's story in five installments for the
Early life
Bestic attended Kingstown Grammar school in Dublin. He began working as a journalist for the
Selected works
- Vrba, Rudolf; Bestic, Alan (1963). I Cannot Forgive. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. OCLC 77394.
- Bestic, Alan (1969). The Importance of Being Irish. London: Cassell. OCLC 490356452.
References
- ^ a b c "Newsman and anatomist of 1960s Ireland". The Irish Times, 14 June 2014.
- ISBN 978-0880336888.