Three Israelis testified here today against Wilhelm Unkelbach, former Czenstochova ghetto policeman accused of murdering at least 30 persons while transporting them from the ghetto to the Treblinka death camp during the Nazi regime. One of the men he is accused of having murdered was the rabbi of Czenstochova, Poland.
The Israelis, among a number of witnesses brought here from abroad, are Mrs. Danuba Kurz, of Haifa; Stanislaw Weissmann, of Holon; and Isaac Gramer, of Tel Aviv. Mrs. Kurz told the court she saw Unkelbach shoot her father, and testified he fractured her skull when she tried to interfere. Weissmann said he saw Unkelbach kill an old Jew in 1942. Gramer described Unkelbach as “the horror of Czenstochova.”
Unkelbach’s name was called to the attention of the German authorities two years ago by a former Czenstochova ghetto inmate who is now a citizen of Israel. A number of witnesses have been brought to Hanau from the United States, Canada and Sweden, to testify against the men.
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