The Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Mass Crimes in North Rhine-Westphalia has launched an inquiry into the activities of the concentration camp personnel at the Sobibor death camp where, from April 1942 to October 1943, between 150,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered, it was reported here today. So far, 22 members of the Sobibor extermination unit have been identified.
At the same time it was announced here today that Georg Schlosser, a 48-year-old former Nazi police officer, will be brought to trial shortly on four charges of having murdered Jews in the ghetto in Czenstochowa, Poland, in 1942-43.
Schlosser was found guilty in 1949 of having killed a Jewish boy in the Polish ghetto. He was sentenced then to 10 years of hard labor. He is to be tried again, however, since the Federal High Court upset the judgment and returned the case to the lower court. The former Nazi will also be tried on three other charges of murdering Jewish residents of the ghetto.
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