A Jew has been sentenced to a term of five years imprisonment and loss of civil rights for ten years following his conviction on charges of having been a war criminal, it was learned here today.
The Jew, Tobias Weinfield of the town of Falticeni in Moldavia, was deported to Transnistria in 1941 and became an official of a ghetto in the Mogilev district. He was found guilty of ordering the flogging of fellow Jews and of accepting bribes to exempt some of the prisoners from slave labor assignments.
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