General Michail Barkan, former prefect of the Dorohci district in Rumania, and five others went on trial here today for anti-Jewish crimes.
The defendants are charged with the murder of 40,000 Jews in Odessa and the deportation of 13,000 Jews from the Dorohci area to Transnistria. Of the latter group, only 6,000 survived.
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