Witnesses to mass executions of Jews by Nazis and their aides during World War II in the Russian city of Mogilew and in a number of slave labor camps in Ukrainia, between Tarnopol and Stalino, were sought here today in a call for such testimony issued by the World Jewish Congress.
According to information available to the WJC, several thousand Mogilew Jews were murdered in February 1942.
The second case, in Ukrainia, concerns probes being conducted now by the West German Government into mass murder of Jews in at least 15 transit camps conducted by the Nazis. A “considerable number” of Nazi criminals are involved in the investigations, the WJC reported. Witnesses were asked to contact Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, director of the WJC’s Institute of Jewish Affairs here.
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