Leon Warsinger, former member of the Moghilev Judenrat–Jewish liaison body set up by the Nazis during the war between themselves and the Jewish communities they occupied–was sentenced to a six-year prison term by a Bucharest court on charges of having misused his authority while acting as liaison between the Rumanian Jews in the Moghilev ghetto and occupation authorities in Rumania.
Testimony offered in court against Warsinger proved that the defendant accepted money and jewelry ostensibly to arrange, through bribery, for the transfer of his fellow-Jews to an area where conditions were more favorable for Jews, but pocketed the money instead.
Vasile Robescu, Rumanian infantry captain who was guilty of ordering, in 1941, the mass execution of 80 Jews living on the outskirts of the town of Czernowitz, was sentenced today to life imprisonment. Robescu remained in hiding in Transylvania until only recently.
At the same time, Ion Albu, former police official in Czernowitz, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for “submitting the Jewish population of Czernowitz to inhuman treatment” at the time of the mass deportations in 1941.
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