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Polish Commission to Deliver Documents on Eichmann to Israel

June 22, 1960
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Poland will send an official, five-man commission here at the end of this month, to deliver to the Israel Government documents pertaining to the mass extermination of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis, and especially connected with the wartime activities of the Nazis “specialist” on the murder of Jews, Adolf Eichmann.

The Polish commission will include Prof. Kaminsky, chairman of the Warsaw Government’s Committee for the Punishment of Nazi War Criminals, and Prof. Mark, head of the Jewish Historical Institute at Warsaw.

It was reported here that Poland has indicated it would like to send a judge to sit on the bench with the Israeli jurists when Eichmann is tried. Poland argued that Eichmann had committed most of his crimes on Polish territory.

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