A Graz court handed down yesterday a sentence of life imprisonment on Stefan Rojko, former assistant commandant of the There sienstadt concentration camp, on wartime crimes charges. A jury found that Rojko had personally murdered 26 Jewish inmates of the Nazi camp.
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