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More Nazi Officials Charged with Killing Jews Get Death Sentence in Poland

July 8, 1948
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The Lodz court today sentenced two Nazi concentration camp officials to death for beating, torturing and shooting Jews n the Goerlitz camp. The two Germans are Winfred Joachim Zunker and Hermann Czech.

In Glimic, Dr. S. Hoffman was sentenced to death for personally murdering 43 Jews in the Blachownia concentration camp and participating in the deportation of more than 5,000 Jews to the Oswiecim crematoria and gas chambers.

Dr. Aron Syngalowski, executive chairman of the World ORT Union, arrived here after visiting ORT training schools in lover Silesia and Lodz. He was met by representatives of the Central Jewish Committee. The Ministers of Industry and Labor, who received the ORT leader, lauded the useful program which his organization is conducting in Poland.

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