Evidence Against Hungarian War Crimes Suspect Laszlo Csatary Mounts
- 1 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
There is considerably more evidence against war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary than against Sandor Kepiro, who was acquitted on war crimes charges last year, lawyer Adam Gellert told reporters. Gellert, head of a research team at the Holocaust Memorial Centre, yesterday presented Hungarian and Slovak archival material, including several documents featuring Csatary's signature as ghetto commander in Kosice, the Slovak town ruled by Hungary during the war.
Data from Kosice archives indicate that nearly 12,000 people were deported from there to Auschwitz from May 15 to June 2, 1944.
Eyewitnesses described Csatary as a “strict, cruel and sadistic” commander who enjoyed power, walked around with a whip and took pleasure in torturing people crammed into the ghetto.
Budapest prosecutors last week accused Csatary of committing a war crime by torturing people, and in one instance refusing to cut an opening in a train car to allow its occupants to breathe
Gellert described Csatary as a notorious sadist who beat Jews with a whip and treated women and children most brutally.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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