A number of Italian guides and border officials charged with delivering Italian Jews to the Gestapo went on trial today in Milan.
The Jews were promised by the defendants that they would be guided across the Italian frontier into Switzerland. However, when they reached the frontier they were robbed of their possessions and handed over to the Gestapo which sent them to Oswiecim. Only twenty of several hundred deported Jews survived.
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