Heinrich Sommerhoff, a former guard at the Oswiecim extermination camp, had been captured by American military police, the Czech press reports. His extradition to Czechoslovakia will be demanded since he is charged with murdering many Czechoslovakian Jews.
Eliahu Dobkin, head of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency, arrived here today to negotiate for the emigration of Jews from Czechoslovakia to Palestine.
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