Wiesenthal Center Welcomes Indictment In Germany Of Two Stutthof Guards; Continues To Seek Survivors Of The Camp

Jerusalem-The Simon Wiesenthal Center today welcomed the indictment yesterday in Muenster, Germany of two guards from the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland. In a statement issued by its chief Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Center noted the importance of the finalefforts to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice and congratulated the German prosecutors on their efforts in the case.

According to Zuroff:

“During the past four months, the Wiesenthal Center has located eighteen survivors of Stutthof, most of whom currently live in Israel, to assist the preparations for the trial of theStutthof guards. Other survivors were located in the United States and Sweden. These survivors were primarily Jews from Lithuanian ghettoes and Hungarian Jews who had initially been deported toAuschwitz. Approximately 110,000 Jews and non-Jews were deported to Stutthof and about 85,000 were murdered there. In 1943 a gas chamber was built there to facilitate the last stages of the FinalSolution.

"We urge anyone with information regarding Stutthof survivors to contact us as soon as possible."

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