A Soviet court in Latvia sentenced three former Nazis to death in absentia for murdering Jews during World War II, Michael Garber, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, was informed officially today by the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the USSR.
The Latvian SSR sent Mr. Garber the full transcript of the trial, showing that one of the men found guilty lives now in Toronto, a second is in Brooklyn, N. Y., and the third at Karlsruhe, West Germany. The material sent to Mr. Garber included photographs that had figured in the trial of the three men. The material, Mr. Garber said, will be translated from the original Russian into English and will be made available to government authorities in Canada, the United States and West Germany.
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