![]() ![]() ![]() She said that he was known to inmates of the ghetto as "The Boxer", and was known as a person of power. Questioned by the judges, Dr Treptow, Mr Gerke and Mr Niekamper, Mrs Glas-Wiener said that Mr Krizons was one of the authorities responsible for selecting the children who were to go to the death camp. She told the court of seeing children she had taught being loaded into trucks to take them to gas chambers. Mrs Glas-Wiener said she was a teacher of some of the 1600 children of an orphanage within the ghetto. One of the witnesses yesterday was a Melbourne woman, Mrs Sheva Glas-Wiener, who last year released a book about her experiences in the ghetto, entitled 'Children of the Ghetto'. More than 200 people, from Germany, Israel, the United States and now Australia, have been called to give evidence at the trial which has been proceeding in Bochum for the past four years. He is being prosecuted by the West German Government on charges of having murdered 27 people at the ghetto, and with helping to bring about the deaths of 16,000 people, many of them children. Mr Krizons, now 67, was known at the ghetto as "The Boxer", the court was told. The evidence was taken before the Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr John Dugan, under an arrangement between the West German Government and the Australian Attorney-General's Department. ![]()
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