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Gustav Friedl

Gestapo commandant tried in Bialystok in 1949 for wartime crimes.

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... Crestapo Commandant Gustav Friedl’s trial took place in the Bialystok Appeals Court at the end of October 1949. Approximately twenty witnesses, who had suffered under the Nazis, gave testimony against Fried! at the trial, which lasted several days. Among them were: Chackel Fendzuch, Awrom Ostroburski, Dowid Kolesznik, Szlojme Blas, Chaim Wrubel, Isroel Bramson, Mira Knaziew, Efrajim Kisler, Fanja Lipin- ska, Dr. Tobtjasz Cytron, Rochel Zacharijasz, Berta Knaziew and others. The prosecution’s expert witness was the well-known historian and chronicler of the de- struction of Bialystok, Dr. Szymon Datner. ...

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... On that night, at 2 A.M., many cars with Nazi soldiers, led by Gestapo Commander Gustav Friedl, entered the ghetto. Friedl stopped at the Judenrat build- ing and ordered the Jewish police to bring Chairman Barasz immediately so that he could observe. ...

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