Ria Hines, 26-year-old resident of Ramath Yitz-hak, who is charged with having collaborated with the Nazis during the war appeared for a preliminary hearing before a magistrate’s court here today. The proceedings were recessed until next week.
Witnesses against the woman include three Jewish women who charge that she was a supervisory guard over some 2,000 women prisoners at the Oswiecim death camp in 1944 and 1945. The indictment states that the Hines woman struck various prisoners including one who became deaf as a result of a blow on the head. She is being prosecuted under the recently enacted law permitting the punishment of Nazis or Nazi collaborators apprehended on Israel soil.
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