László Csizsik-Csatáry, the alleged Nazi war criminal, was charged this week with participating in the murder of 15,700 Jews during the Holocaust.
Hungarian prosecutors said the 98-year-old was the police commander of the Kosice detention camp — then in Slovakia — where he assaulted Jews with a dog whip before sending all those interned to Auschwitz.
Budapest Investigative Prosecutors’ Office spokeswoman Bettina Bagoly stated: “With his actions, Laszlo Csatáry… deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps… from Kosice.”
Prosecutors have also claimed that he ensured that 80 Jews being deported were not permitted ventilation holes in their railway carriage.
