Joseph Gorniewicz, Nazi officer who “liquidated” the ghetto in Baranowicz by directing the mass-execution of thousands of Jews, was today sentenced to death by hanging in a Polish court in Wroclaw.
It was officially announced here today that the body of Arthur Greizer, Nazi leader in Lodz who was hanged last month, was cremated in a crematorium which he had built for the mass extermnation of Jews.
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