Two brothers accused by the Soviet newspaper Trud in Moscow of having taken part in the wartime liquidation of the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town of Lyuboml flatly denied today there was any truth in the charge. The brothers, Serhij Kowalczuk and Mykola Kowalczuk, also said they had retained a law firm in Philadelphia “to take the necessary steps to clear our name and obtain redress.”
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