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1948

Prague Court Sentences Six Women Guards for Mistreatment of Prisoners at Nazi Camp

Six women guards at the notorious Ravensbruck camp for women were found guilty today by a Prague court of having tortured and beat to death Jewish and anti-Nazi women under their supervision. Sophie Nietsche was sentenced to death, while five others received varying terms, ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment.

1947

Gestapo Leaders Who Directed Murder of Jews Captured in Poland by Survivors

Bertold Gross, Nazi “liquidator” of the Jewish ghetto in Kosow, Galicia, who is directly responsible for the murder of 4,000 Kosow Jews, was arrested this week in Jelenia Gora, the former Silesian town of Hirschberg, after being recognized in the street by a Jewish woman whose child he had buried alive in a Mass-grave, after […]

1946

Confession of Executed S.S. Leader Accuses Nazi Doctors of Ordering Murder of Jews

A confession by Joseph Kramer, executed former commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, that he had murdered 86 Jews at the order of several of the defendants in the trial of 23 Nazi doctors, was introduced at the trial today by American prosecutors. The Jews were part of a group of 121 who were murdered […]

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Prague Court Sentences Six Women Guards for Mistreatment of Prisoners at Nazi Camp

Gestapo Leaders Who Directed Murder of Jews Captured in Poland by Survivors

Confession of Executed S.S. Leader Accuses Nazi Doctors of Ordering Murder of Jews

Jewish Organizations Spent $20,000,000 to Help War Refugee Board Save Jews in Europe

Jewish Girls in Unrra Camp Threatened with Death by Poles if They Return to Poland

Belgian Women from Ravensbruk Camp Force Authorities to Repatriate Alien Jews

German Plan to Kill All Jews in Theresienstadt Thwarted by Rapid Advance of Red Army

1,000 More Jews from German Camps Expected to Arrive in Switzerland This Week

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