The Jewish Weekly Issue 184 Pesach edition

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BOARD CALLS FOR PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES BY DAVID SAFFER Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has called for a public inquiry into allegations British Intelligence Services helped Nazi war criminals come to the UK after the Second World War and protected them from justice. BBC journalists investigated the case of Nazi War criminal Stanislaw Chrzanowski, who murdered at least 30 people, possibly more, in Slonim, Belarus. Radio 4 programme, “The Nazi Next Door”, broadcast on Tuesday, reveals Chrzanowski’s secret past. In it, reporter Nick Southall takes up the story of John Kingston who lived in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. John passed away in 2018 but

Marie van der Zyl

had been investigating his stepfather, Chrzanowski. There are 150 hours of secret recordings between Chrzanowski and his stepson. Southall interviews people who

knew Chrzanowski, a holocaust survivor from Slonim, he also visits Slonim and meets the German agency that investigated Nazi criminals. It’s a chilling story that takes listeners from Birmingham to Berlin and the ‘Killing Fields’ of Belarus. Tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the Slonim ghetto in 1941 and 1942. Ms van de Zyl described the findings as “shocking” and a “very dark day for Britain and for British Jews”. The Radio 4 investigation confirms Chrzanowski worked for British intelligence in the 1950s. The programme alleges not only CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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