Seven Lithuanians, including a Roman Catholic priest now living in Brooklyn, were sentenced to long prison terms after being convicted by the Supreme Court of Soviet Lithuania of collaborating with German “killer squads” that murdered Jews during World War II, according to a Moscow dispatch received here today.
Six of the defendants, including the Rev. Lionginas Jankois, of Brooklyn, executive director of the United Lithuanian Relief Fund, were sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, while the seventh man was given a 10-year term. Rev, Jankus had been tried in absentia. (The Rev. Jankus, now an American citizen, denied the charges in New York, declaring, on the contrary, that he had delivered food and clothing to Jews in his area rounded up in the-woods to be shot.)
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