Fifteen former Austrian policemen who participated in the mass killing of Polish Jews in the towns of Kolomea, Stanislau and Strij, in Galicia, have been arrested here. Their arrest came after a long series of protests against their continued freedom by various Jewish organizations and non-Jewish resistance groups. The 15 arrested men, who were released from prison by Soviet authorities in November, 1955, were not arrested until now because of a Soviet delay in returning certain documents.
Most of the arrested men were said to have been involved in helping to “clear” the Polish Ghetto in 1944, where some 10,000 Jews perished The Austrian Government first arrested them in 1946, but turned them over to the Soviet authorities, who had them in custody until their release last year. Protests against the failure to re-arrest them after their release had been directed to the Ministry of Justice here.
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