Three persons were sentenced to death and three received life terms today after being convicted of having instigated the pogrom at Kunmadaras on May 26, during which three Jews were killed and more than 20 injured.
Two other defendants were sentenced to 15-years imprisonment at hard labor, confiscation of their property and expulsion from Kunmadaras; a policeman who took part in the outbreak received six years and four youths were sentenced to long terms in reform schools. Several other defendants were acquitted.
Laszlo Sebestyen, a Jew who obtained “Aryan” identity papers during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to ten years today for having joined the S.S.
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