Laszlo Kraseznay, former Gestapo chief in the Transylvanian town Simleu Silvaniei, who vas tried on charges of Inflicting inhuman treatment on a group of 8,500 Jews confined in the town’s ghetto, was sentenced to life imprisonment today.
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