Resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis
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September 15, 2023
Dutch Jews at the Mauthausen concentration camp, June 26, 1941.
(JNS) - Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators said on Wednesday.
Bernard Luza, 39, was killed by a firing squad in 1943 after he and hundreds of other Jews were arrested following a raid on a factory in northern Amsterdam on Nov. 11, 1942. His body was discovered in 1945 in a grave with four others, buried at a shooting range near Schiphol Airport.
Two of the bodies were quickly identified, while a third was named in...
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