The second trial of participants in the Kielce pogrom, which took the lives of 42 Jews last July, will open shortly, a spokesman for the Foreign Office told correspondents today. Nine persons were executed in July after being convicted at the first trial. One of the principal defendants at the new trial will be S.W. Sobsznski, chief of the Security police at Kielce, who is charged with neglect of duty.
The trial of Ludwig Fischer, Nazi governor of Warsaw, under whose rule hundreds of thousand of Jews were murdered, will open here on Dec. 16. The Nazi who directed the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, Meissinger, will be tried at the same time. Meissinger was captured in Japan and returned here at the request of the Polish Government.
Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, who has admitted that 2,000,000 persons, the bulk of them Jews, were killed during his administration of the camp, will go on trial Jan. 10. Hoess was captured by U.S. troops in Germany.
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