Jews from Israel and other countries abroad who were victimized by Serge Bobko, head of a concentration camp in Poland during the Nazi occupation, were summoned by Polish authorities to testify at the trial of Bobko which is now taking place in Wroclaw, Poland, it was reported here today from Warsaw. Bohko is charged with conducting the “liquidation of Jews” in the Polish towns of Baranowice and Horodisce.
The report says that the trial, which has been going on for about two weeks, has established that Bobko directed the mass-execution of the Jews in Baranovice. Jewish and Polish witnesses testified that Bobko ordered the liquidation of the ghetto in Baranovice and personally took charge of marching the Jews to a field behind the ghetto where they were machine-gunned and thrown into a mass grave. Among those who testified against Bobko was a Jewish woman who, together with her daughter, crawled out from the mass grave after simulating death.
Bobko is also charged with participating in the execution, in the summer of 1942, of a transport of several thousand Jews from Czechoslovakia who were brought to gas chambers in Poland. Another charge against him is that he killed all the Jews in the town of Nesviezh, Poland, when he arrived there in 1943 as head of a Nazi “security unit. ” Prior to the massacre, he set the Nesviezh ghetto afire and burned it to the ground, the charge specifies.
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