The vice-commander of the Lodz Ghetto during the German occupation, Rudolphe Kramp, was sentenced to death last Saturday for organizing the deportation and murder of over 200,000 Lodz Jews.
Witnesses at the trial charged that kramp personally directed the transfer of Jews from the ghetto to a death camp at Chelmek and looted the property of the deportees. He also was accused of directing the execution in the Lodz Jewish cemetery of tens of thousands of Jews, and of heading Camp Dobrowka, near Pabiance, where thousands of other Lodz Jews were murdered.
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