A sharp protest against the recent acquittal, after a trial at Graz, Austria, of Franz Murer, former Gestapo chief of the Vilna ghetto accused of the mass murder of Jews there during World War II, was voiced today by the World Center of European Rabbis, many of whom are survivors of the Hitlerian holocaust. The protest was cabled to the Austrian Government in Vienna and also sent to the Austrian Ambassadors in Washington and in other Western capitals.
According to Rabbis Moshe Joseph Rubin and L. Horowitz, respectively president and secretary of the American section of the rabbinical organization, Murer had not only been freed but had also been showered with flowers by Graz residents after his release. The message to the Austrian Government demanded that Murer be retried.
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