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In October 2007, Serafinowicz dropped his attempt to use the Human Rights Act against national newspapers; he had been seeking to prevent the publication of information revealing that his Belarusian grandfather, Szymon Serafinowicz, was a member of the Nazi-controlled Belarusian Auxiliary Police.
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Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as the title character in the 2016 live-action series of The Tick, Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004) and as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
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Apr 13, 2012 · His grandfather Szymon Serafinowicz appeared at the Old Bailey in 1997 accused of killing Jews while he was a police chief in his native Belarus when it was occupied by the Nazis.
Nov 26, 2021 · In 2007, the Evening Standard reported that Peter's grandfather, Szymon Serafinowicz, a Polish former carpenter and police chief who had settled in the U.K., had twelve years earlier been put on trial for Nazi war crimes — the first such case in Britain.
Oct 23, 2007 · Szymon Serafinowicz, a former police chief in Nazi-occupied Belarus during the Second World War, became the first person in Britain to be charged under the 1991 War Crimes Act.
May 21, 2023 · Szymon Serafinowicz Jr is the dad of English entertainer Peter Serafinowicz. His child Serafinowicz is an English entertainer, jokester, chief, and screenwriter. He is most popular for his appearances as the title character in The Tick, Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).
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Szymon Serafinowicz, a Belorussian auxiliary policeman, was the first person in the UK to be charged under the War Crimes Act. He participated in massacres of Jews around the historic town of Mir; a cohort of fellow officers, all alleged perpetrators, followed him to the UK, masquerading as Poles, after the war.
