The Polish Government has requested the extradition of Nazi leader Dr. Rorbert Gotthard, who was recently arrested at Lubeck in the British zone of Germany.
Poland charges that he played an active role in the destruction of the Yiddish Soientific Institute (YIVO) in Vilna and that he denounced to the Gestapo Noah Prylutzki and Eliahu Goldschmidt, the Jewish writers.
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