Samuel Reizman, one of the organizers of the revolt in the Tremblinka death camp in August 1942, during which 150 Jewish prisoners escaped, and Abraham Sutzkever, a leader of the Jewish partisans in Lithuania, arrived here today to testify against the Nazi war lords on trial here. They were called to testify by the Soviet prosecution.
Reizman, who is 42 years old, will testify concerning anti-Jewish atrocities in Poland. He is head of the “Association of Tremblinka Fighters,” consisting of the 12 survivors of the 150 who succeeded in breaking out of the camp during the revolt.
Sutzkever, who is 33, comes from Vilna. He escaped from the ghetto, with his wife, in September, 1943. He holds the Soviet Order of the Red Star for his heroism in many battles against the Nazis, and is the author of a book concerning the Vilna ghetto, which appeared recently in Paris.
Dr. Philip Fridman, a well-known Jewish historian, has also arrived here to confer with Soviet prosecutors on their presentation of the evidence of Nazi killings of Jews in Poland. Dr. Fridman heads the Jewish Historical Commission in Lodz.
Yesterday, as part of their evidence of the Nazi “crimes against humanity,” the Russian prosecution submitted to the court data is of the extermination of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Baltic countries.
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