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Jewish Judge in Poland Shot by Policeman; Nazi Collaborator Hanged for Crimes on Jews

August 9, 1949
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M. Friedman-Loubovitzki, a judge of the Glivitze district court, was shot and killed by a member of the local police, it was reported here today. The policeman who shot the judge in a public park in Glivitze is under arrest.

Edouard Lonkovsky, a Pole who worked for the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and who specialized in hunting down Jews, was hanged in Ostrouv following a denial of clemency by the President of the Polish Republic. Three Polish writers and actors who collaborated in the making of Nazi anti-Jewish films in Poland during the occupation have been sentenced to five and ten years imprisonment.

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