War Crimes Trial Adjourned Until March
<i> Reuters</i>
ADELAIDE, Australia —
This country’s first Nazi war crimes trial was adjourned Thursday until March 9, when witnesses from the Ukraine, Israel, the United States and Soviet Union will give evidence.
Ivan Polyukhovich, 75, is charged with killing 24 Jews and with knowingly being involved in the murder of up to 850 others from the Serniki ghetto in the German-occupied Ukraine during World War II.
Polyukhovich has entered no plea in the pretrial hearing in Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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