The Baden-Wuerttemburg Compensation Court will rule March 19 on whether the Nazi regime was responsible for the persecution of Jews in Rumania for which the survivors have filed claims for compensation, it was revealed today.
An initial claim against the Baden Wuerttemburg province was dismissed in June, 1957 although it was generally known that Nazis had a decisive role in the anti-Jewish measures instituted in Rumania during World War II.
In the hearing before the compensation court in Stuttgart, detailed documentary material was presented, particularly German Foreign Office reports listing details of Nazi instigation of Rumanian anti-Semitic movements as well as the special role of German authorities among Rumanian officials.
A number of survivors testified that on July 7, 1941, German S.S. units pillaged and burned one of Rumania’s greatest Jewish communities, Czernowitz. The widow of Chief Rabbi Marks recalled how her husband and other Jewish community leaders were held prisoner by the German police and how they, together with another 160 victims, were shot.
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