Two new complaints have been filed against Amsterdam Mayor Dr. Franz Schokking, charged with having betrayed to the Nazis the family of Jacob Pino during the German occupation. At that time, Dr. Schokking was mayor of the village of Hazerswoude.
The complaints, filed with the knowledge of Justice Minister Dr. Johan Christian van Hofen, were lodged by 82-year-old Mrs. Adler, now a resident of Brazil, who was the mother of Jacob Pino’s late wife, Erna, and by Daniel Slui, a non-Jew who hid the Pino family from the Nazis until Dr. Schokking allegedly sent the Gestapo to arrest them Mr. Slui was also arrested for hiding the Pinos, but survived.
Mrs. Adler demands that Dr. Schokking be punished and that the memory of her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter be “vindicated.” Jacob Pino committed suicide in Scheveninger Prison after his wife and daughter had been tortured by the Nazis. They were later sent to Oswiecim and gassed. An earlier complaint against Dr. Schokking, placed by Miriam Pino, sister of Jacob, is due to be heard in court shortly.
Despite the fact that the present Dutch Cabinet is scheduled to resign after the forthcoming national elections June 13, the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament has scheduled a debate on the Schokking-Pino case. Dr. Louis Beel, Vice Premier, who re-appointed Dr. Schokking Mayor of Amsterdam last December, will be asked to explain his action.
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