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Chairman Barasz

Chairman Barasz

Chairman who reportedly agreed to evacuate Jews from the ghetto.

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... ‘During the first liquidation action in the ghetto in February 1943, despite the fact that Chairman Barasz had agreed to evacuate 6,000 Jews from the ghetto and had prepared the required lists of those to be trans- ferred, Friedl took action that resulted in the death of 2,000 Jews and the deportation of 13,000 to the concen- tration camps.
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