Jewish groups hailed the conviction in London of a 78-year-old man charged with killing Jews in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. The Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it welcomed the April I conviction of Anton Sawoniuk and urged the “continuation of the efforts to prosecute Holocaust perpetrators in Great Britain and elsewhere.”
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