The Rumanian Parliament heard today a request by Jen Stoica, of the Ploughmen’s Front Party, that a public trial be held of the murderers of 126 Jews who were slaughtered in the village of Sarmasi, in September, 1944.
Pointing out that although three years have passed since the crime was committed, Stoica said no measures have been taken so far to punish the perpetrators of the crime. Gen. Dumitriu Damaeanu, Under-Secretary of National Defense, promised to initiate an investigation.
The victims of the Sarmasi massacre were exhumed and buried in a common grave according to Jewish rites, in March, 1945.
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