Twenty-one Germans who served as guards in the notorious Oswiecim concentration camp were executed today in Cracow, it was announced here.
At the same time, it was reported that wasyl Pierec, a Ukrainian who was responsible for the death of 13,000 Jews from Borislav, has been sentenced to death. Pierce succeeded in hiding out to Lower Silesia for there years, but was seized by the police when two Borislav residents recognized him in the Breslau railway station.
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