New York, N.Y., April 10, 2001 … Information regarding the whereabouts of Holocaust survivors who spent time in Belgrade, Yugoslavia between April 1941 and July 1944 is being sought by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in response to a request by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Specifically, the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which investigates war crimes stemming from the Holocaust, is seeking survivors who:

• hid in Belgrade during World War II
• were deported from Belgrade to a Nazi concentration camp
• were in the camp of Topovske Shupe in Belgrade or Banjica near Belgrade
• were taken to Belgrade from other parts of Serbia, such as Sabac, Pozerevac, Valjevo, Veliki Beckerek or the Banat region
• were taken for forced labor to the BOR mines
• were in Zemun in the Sajmiste camp between December 1941 and November 1944
• had any encounter with Einsatzkommandos, the Gestapo or the Security Police-Security Service (SIPO and SD)

Survivors of this nature or persons with information about them are asked to contact Elliot Welles, ADL Nazi War Criminals Task Force Director, 823 United Nations Plaza, N.Y., N.Y., 10017 (212) 885-7736, or Susan Adams of the OSI at (202) 616-2501. OSI will accept collect phone calls from potential witnesses. Both English and non-English speaking witnesses are welcomed.

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