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Two Hungarian Fasoists Executed for Murder of 3,500 Jewish Slave Laborers

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Pal Juhaeg and Ferenc Asztalos, two Hungarian fascists who were responsible for the death of 3,500 Jewish slave laborers during the war, were today hanged following a two-day trial here.

The two were in charge of a group of Jews who were forced to marsh from Hungary to the Bor copper mines in Yugoslavia to serve as slave miners for the Eazis. Juhasz and Aeztalos handed the Jews over to a gang of fascists who massacred them. During the trial witnesses best Asztalos.

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