Survivors of 24 Nazi forced labor camps strung along the transit road between Galicia and Ukraine are urgently being sought by the World Jewish Congress in New York. They are required as witnesses against a considerable number of Nazi criminals now under investigation in Germany for their participation in crimes at the camps.
The camps were situated along what was known at the time as the Durchgangsstrasse IV (Transit Road IV), and housed tens of thousands of Jews herded into the forced labor sites. The camps concerned were: Borki-Wielki; Grodek-Jagielonski; Hermanow; Jaktorow; Jezierna; Kamionka-Strumilowa; Kamionki near Tarnopol, Camps I and II; Kurowice, with the camp Ostrow; Laki-Wielki; Lawrykowce; Lamberg Janowska; Lemberg DAW; Lemberg Julag; Maksymowka; Mosty-Wielki; Pluhow; Podkamien; Przemyslany; Sasow; Skalat; Tarnopol, with the camps Zbaraz, Zaloscie and Zagrobela; Winniki; Zborow; Zloczow.
Testimony is urgently required in view of the fact that the preliminary investigation into the crimes will be concluded shortly and the matter transferred for further action.
The World Jewish Congress is also seeking two survivors of the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Germany; Jean Frederic Veith, born in 1930 in Moscow; Maurice Lampe, born in 1900 in Roubaix. Both men appeared as witnesses before the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and are now urgently needed as witnesses in the cases of a number of Nazis now under investigation in connection with crimes committed at Mauthausen.
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