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New Zealanders Among Victims In Bohemia-Moravia PRAGUE RADIO REPORTS Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, June 28. New Zealanders and Canadians were among 1000 political prisoners who died in the massacre by Germans in Bohemia and Moravia. Prague radio, reporting this said that the mass graves in which the victims were buried, would be opened in the next few days. The radio also stated that last Anril a convoy of 822 political, prisoners, which included Russians, Poles? French, Czechs, Yugoslavs,. Belgians and Dutch, left Johanngeorgenstadt, on the Saxon-Czech border for Theresienstradt, northwest of Prague. On the journey prisoners from other camps joined the convoy. , . ■ After 20 days only 28-prisoners remained, more than 1000 having been shot or starved to death. Two Czechs who escaped have identified 22 mass graves of their comrades. They also identified Storm Trooper Fink, who is in custody, and who admitted that he shot 300 of the prisoners.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 5
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