Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
British Journal of Holocaust Education
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,1 (1999) 42-57
Keywords:
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
;
War crime trials
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the first trial (1997) in Britain under the 1991 War Crimes Act, which ended with the defendant Szymon Serafinowicz (b. 1910) being found senile and, hence, unfit for trial. Serafinowicz was accused, inter alia, of involvement, as a Belorussian militia officer, in German mass murders of Jews in Belarus (Mir, Turets, and Dolmatowszczyna) in 1941-42. Argues that although there is little doubt of the defendant's guilt, he would probably not have been convicted due to the difficulty of meeting standards of proof of the commission of war crimes. Comparison is made with similar outcomes in two Canadian war crimes trials, those of Imre Finta (from Hungary) in 1989-92 and of Pawlowski (accused of crimes in Belarus) in 1993.
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