A deputation of the Polish Political Ex-Prisoners Association of Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region met with Senora Ibis Bengston, Brazilian Consul in Toronto, and expressed the concern of their organizations on the status of Franz Stangl. They urged that Brazil extradite the former Nazi death camp commandant to be tried for war crimes.
Those in the delegation which met Mrs. Bengston were Jan Kaszuba and Sigmund Sherwood for the Polish group and Meyer Gaster and Kalman Berger for the CJC. Included in the CJC group were members of the Bergen-Belsen Association, the Association of Concentration Camp Survivors and N-3 Fighters Against Racial Hatred.
About 50 persons made up the delegation about a dozen of whom paraded outside the Consulate with placards demanding that Stangl be brought to justice. Mrs. Bengston assured the delegation representatives she would convey the petition to her government.
(Brazil’s Supreme Court refused this week to grant a writ of habeas corpus which would have resulted in the release of Stangl. Stangl’s attorney said he would still pursue his efforts to keep the Nazi war criminal from being extradited. Applications for his extradition have been filed by West Germany, Austria and Poland, and endorsed by Israel.)
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