Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania submitted today to the Israeli press pictures and documents which he said showed that Bishop Vioral Trifu, now of Detroit, was the former head of the Rumanian Green Shirt student organization of the Rumanian Iron Guard which conducted pogroms on Jews under the Antonescu regime.
The Chief Rabbi explained he had delayed his return to Rumania because he had been looking for those documents. He said he was prepared to appear before any board to testify against Trifu. Rabbi Rosen said be found the documentary material in the archives of the Yad Vashem, the official agency for the documentation of the Nazi genocide program in Europe, and of the World Jewish Congress.
Dr. Aryeb Tartakower, of the Israeli World Jewish Congress executive, said his organization would not take any position as to which Jewish organization would seek to press charges in the case but all material has been transferred to the American Jewish Congress in New York City for action.
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