HU OSA 329 Records of the Canadian Court Relating to the Case of Her Majesty The Queen (Appellant) v. Imre Finta (Respondent) and Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association (Intervener)
Identity Statement
- Reference Code
- HU OSA 329
- Title
- Records of the Canadian Court Relating to the Case of Her Majesty The Queen (Appellant) v. Imre Finta (Respondent) and Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association (Intervener)
- Date(s)
- 1993
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Extent and medium (processed)
- 1 Archival boxes, 0.12 linear meters
Context
- Name of creator(s)
- Supreme Court of Canada
Content and Structure
- Scope and Content (Abstract)
- Appeals Court documents relating the the case of Imre Finta, a Canadian citizen of Ontario and a former commander of an investigative unit of the Gendarmerie in Szeged, who was accused of committing manslaughter, kidnapping and unlawful confinement during the deportation of over 8,000 Jews in Szeged. Finta, who was the first person to be prosecuted under Canada's war crimes legislation, was charged in 1987 and acquitted in 1990. The Ontario Court of Appeal (1992) and the Supreme Court of Canada (1994) upheld the acquittal.
- Accruals
Not Expected
Conditions of Access and Use
- Conditions governing access
- Open for research
- Languages
- English
Description Control
- Archivist's note
- Processed by Csaba Szilagyi, April, 2011.