Six Poles and Germans were condemned this week to bath in various cities of Poland for killing and torturing Jewish civilians during be German occupation.
Johann Leiderlitz was sentenced to death by a Warsaw court for ordering the instruction by fire in 1942, of the Kolomyja ghetto. His wife, Annelize, also received the death sentence for shooting Jewish women and children who tried to escape from the conflagration, and for participating in the mass murder of Jews in the ?zczepanowce woods. The couple was originally arrested by American military authorities in Germany.
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