United States High Commissioner John J. McCloy attended a Seder given for American Jewish personnel stationed here. The services were performed by Army Chaplain Harsh Livazer.
Josef Maendl, a former S.S. sergeant at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp, as found guilty by a jury here yesterday in two cases of murder and several cases of mistreatment of political prisoners. He was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor.
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