Four members of an underground terrorist band, including one woman, have been sentenced to death in Lodz for the murder of five Jews, the Polish Press Agency reports today.
The terrorists, who also admitted committing acts of sabotage and several robberies, are Czeslaw Poltorek, Marian Kempa, Francisek Tomaszewski and Kazimiera Gaymak. All were members of the so-called Home Army, an anti-Government group.
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