Construction has been started on the first buildings to rise on the site of the former Jewish ghetto of Warsaw. Eventually some 10,000 families will be housed in one huge project which will stand on Muranov Street, one of the major streets of the old ghetto which was razed by the Nazis during and after the famous ghetto uprising of the Jews in April, 1943.
A Pozman district court today sentenced to death Frederick Fritz Neumann, a German director of labor camps in the Pozman area during the Nazi occupation. Neuman, who was surrendered to the Poles by the American occupation authorities in Germany, was found guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment of thousands of Jewish slave laborers. The prosecution proved that of some 10,000 slave laborers in the camps during Neumann’s regime, only 1,000 survived when the camps were finally liquidated.
Another German who was turned over to Poland by the U.S. Army has been executed in Lublin, it was learned here today. The German, Francishek Gebhardt, was hanged when the President of Poland rejected an appeal for clemency. He was convicted of murdering or being responsible for the killing of thousands of Jews during his period of service in a Nazi work camp in Warsaw, and the Dachau and Muehldorf concentration camps. He was also a member of the Gestapo.
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