The World Jewish Congress announced here today that it has initiated a search for witnesses required for a series of Nazi criminal investigations undertaken by the West German authorities. The cases involve men accused of mass murders, deportations and tortures of Jews in a number of Polish ghettoes and labor camps.
Witnesses are being sought against the Nazi murderers of the Jews in Radzyn and in the following towns in the Radzyn district: Miedzyrzec, Lukow, Parczew, Serokomla, Wohyn, Czemierniki, Debowa. In addition, witnesses are being sought against the murderers of Jews in Czestochowa. Two separate criminal investigations are being conducted, one in Bamberg against Georg Schlosser and others, and another in Lueneburg against Paul Degenhardt and four others.
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