A 23-year-old Pole has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by a court in Lublin, Poland, for desecrating a Jewish cemetery at a former concentration camp, according to a dispatch received here today from Warsaw.
The man, Zygmunt Bochinski, was convicted of digging up graves in the Sobiror concentration camp where thousands of Jews were slain during World War II. Bochinski and three companions were caught in the act of desecration, Polish police told the court. The men told police they were looking for gold and other valuables they believed bidden in the graves.
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