Rabbi Bela Berend, convicted on charges of coperating with the Gestapo last Nov. 23 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, as today acquitted by an appellate court. Both the People’s Court which originally ##onvicted him and the higher court took into account his plea that he had cooperated ##ith the Nazis in order to aid Jews.The bodies of 212 Jewish victims of a Nazi massacre in a concentration camp ##ear the village of Pusztavam were reburied at a mass funeral arranged by the Or##anization of Jewish Labor Veterans and the Hungarian Anti-Fascist Union. The ##assacre took place on Oct. 16, 1944 when the Nazis believed that Admiral Horthy had ##ucceeded in obtaining an armistice agreement from the Red Army. None of the per##etrators of the outrage have yet been apprehended.A representative of the Anti-Fascist Union said that of 8,000 Jewish bodies ##xhumed from mass graves, these 200-odd were in the worst condition. Apparently the ##azis had forced the Jews to dig their own graves and then had beaten them so badly ##hat most of the skulls of the victims were found to be bashed in. Then they were ##hot.
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