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Germans Doomed by Stettin Court for Murder and Betrayal of Polish Jews

July 16, 1947
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Crestaw Stolarski, former block-leader in the Austalian death camp Ebensee, has been sentenced to death by hanging, it was announced (##)re. Similar sentences were imposed on Hans Schroder, leader of the labor camp at (##)ttin, Alphonse Pietrushevski, an official of the Mauthausen Camp and Antonina Koto(##)z, Bruno Ciepikowski and Karl Lehrke, who betrayed Jews to the Germans.

Meanwhile, authorities at Lodz announced that Walter Piller, commandant of the (##)lmno camp, has admitted responsibility for the deaths of 17,000 Jews in 1944. On- (##) three Jews escaped the fate which overtook the rest of the inmates, it was brought (##) at the trial. It is expected that Piller will receive the death sentence.

In Warsaw the Jewish Central Committee announced that it has allocated $1,000 gather testimony against Gen. Jurgen von Stroop, who crushed the revolt in the (##)rsaw Ghetto in 1943. Von Stroop goes on trial soon before Poland’s highest tribu(##)l.

Another mass grave has been discoverad at Ostrow-Mazowiecki, where 70,000 per(##)ns, including 10,000 Jews, met their death. According to an inquiry commission, the (##)ws were murdered and buried separately.

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