Four witnesses from the Soviet Union have arrived here to testify in the trial of Pieter Menten which will be resumed Thursday. Three are Ukrainians from the village of Podhorodze where Menten allegedly committed mass murders July 7, 1941 and one is a Jew who lived in the village of Uryce at the time of the mass murders there Aug. 27, 1941.
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