Trial of Gestapo Leader Responsible for Death of Thousands of Czech Jews Opens

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Trial of Gestapo Leader Responsible for Death of Thousands of Czech Jews Opens


PRAGUE, Feb. 24 (JTA) –

The trial of Dieter von Wisliczeny, former Gestapo chief and advisor on Jewish affairs to the Slovak puppet government, opened today in Bratislava. Wisliczeny is charged with responsibility for deporting thousands of Czechoslovak Jews to death camps in Poland.



In 1942, the indictment against Wisliczeny says, the defendant promised to halt the deportation of Jews from Slovakia on condition that they pay a large sum of money to the Gestapo though him. The Jews, who had already been ruined financially, succeeded in scraping together $50,00 which they turned over to the defendant. Despite the bribe, the Jews were later deported to their death.



In his opening address the prosecutor said that Wisliczeny later participated in the mass deportations of Jews in Greece, Hungary and elsewhere in the Balkans. He was described as a follower and personal friend of Adolf Eichmann, chief Nazi "Jewish expert" who set up the notorious Theresienstadt, Oswiecim and other death camps.



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"Trial of Gestapo Leader Responsible for Death of Thousands of Czech Jews Opens." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 25 Feb 1948.

Commander of-jewish-concentration-camps-in-slovakia-sentenced-to-30-years-imprisonment

http://archive.jta.org/article/1947/05/28/3010271/mander-of-jewish-concentration-camps-in-slovakia-sentenced-to-30-years-imprisonment
Slovakia Sentenced to 30 Years Imprisonment


PRAGUE, May. 27 (JTA) –

Imrich Vasina, a former commander of Jewish concentration camps in Bratislava and in Sered, Slovakia, was sentenced today to thirty ## imprisonment by the National Court in Bratislava.



Thousands of Czechs and Jews from all parts of Czechoslovakia made a pilgrim## this week to Terezin, the fortress town which was converted by the Nazis into a concentration camp for Jews, to attend services in memory of the more than 20,000 ##sons who died there. Chief Rabbi Gottschall of Prague conducted the service for ## Jewish victims on the site of the former crematorium. Speakers included Vaclav ##ask, Minister of the Interior, Joza David, Speaker of the Czechoslovakian parliament, and other statesmen.



Two thousand Czechs who were prisoners in the Oswiecim death camp will return here next month to participate in memorial services for the 4,000,000 persons who were murdered at the camp. The museum which is to be erected on the site of Oswiecim ##ill contain a special Czechoslovak section, the establishment of which will be aided ## the Prague Jewish Museum.



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"Mander of Jewish Concentration Camps in Slovakia Sentenced to 30 Years Imprisonment." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 28 May 1947.