Ex-SS guard charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder

Apr 19, 20190

Jerry Holt – Star Tribune count

Holocaust survivor Judy Meisel of St. Louis Park held a photo of her parents Osser Beker (father) and Mina Beker (mother) that was taken around 1938. Judy's mother Mina died in the gas chamber at Stutthof concentration camp on the Baltic coast in late 1944 or early 1945 .

BERLIN - A former Nazi guard has been charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp during the final months of World War II, German prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors in the northern city of Hamburg said Thursday that the 92-year-old suspect, whose name they didn't release, is accused of assisting in the "malicious and cruel" killing of mainly Jewish inmates through his work as an SS guard at the camp between August 1944 and April 1945.

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