Moses Rappaport, 65, of Fair Lawn, H. J., collapsed in a court room here as he was about to identify some of the 10 former SS officers being tried on charges of murdering 700,000 Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp during World War H. The man was taken unconscious to a hospital.
Mr. Rappaport had told Judge Rudolf Gottlebe that one guard at Treblinka shot his wife to death in front of him because, being pregnant, she was unable to walk fast enough off the ramp from the train that had brought them to the camp. Judge Gottlebe asked the man if he could identify any of the defendants as murderers. Mr. Rappaport started toward the table where the defendants sat, gasped, whispered that he can not breathe, and fell unconscious.
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