The Lublin court today imposed the death sentence on Jan Kopthiuski and Michael Toporov for turning a group of 30 Jewish guerrillas over to the Gestapo in 1942. The Jews were subsequently murdered.
The public prosecutor in Lublin today appealed against the 15-year jail sentence imposed on Bernard Lall, hangman of the Lublin ghetto who personally executed several scores of Jews. The prosecutor demanded that Lall be executed for his war crimes.
The death sentence imposed on Konstanty Murowicki was confirmed by the Supreme Court today. Murowicki, who joined the White Russian “police staff” during the German occupation of Poland, participated in the liquidation of the Zaostrowich ghetto. The court also confirmed the death sentence meted out to Frieda Ehrich, chief of the women’s section of the infamous Maidanek concentration camp.
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