Survivors recalled the horrors of the Holocaust during the trial of a man accused of helping the Nazis massacre Jews. The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to denaturalize Jakob Reimer because he allegedly lied about killing Jews at several sites in wartime Poland in his 1952 application to immigrate to the United States. The survivors spoke of the cruelty they had witnessed at several ghettoes, but none could identify Reimer.
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