10.07.2012                      20.Tammus. 5772

Jüdische Welt:

Nazi-era rape, murder case reopens old Polish wounds

Probe into 71-year-old case involving rape and murder of 20 Jewish women spotlights Poland's mixed record during Holocaust.

Poland has just reopened a 71-year-old case involving the rape and murder of 20 Jewish women.

In the 1941 case — in the midst of World II, and two years after the Nazi invasion of Poland — six Poles allegedly beat the Jewish women to death with metal-tipped clubs outside the hamlet of Bzury, in northeastern Poland. Government prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew hopes to prosecute the killers, if they are still alive. He also hopes to discover the identities of the women and the location of their graves….