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Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
December 7, 2019, 3:10 am
How historians led a campaign to hunt down, deport Nazi killers living in the US
‘Citizen 865’ details the capture of Trawniki Men — Soviet POWs and Ukrainian civilians trained by the SS who helped murder 1.7 million Jews, and some of whom then came to America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This 1949 photo provided by the US Department of Justice shows a US visa photo of Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who had been living in the Queens borough of New York. (US Department of Justice via AP)
January 12, 2019, 1:23 am
Timeline: Life and death of ex-Nazi guard deported from US
From Poland to Queens, a look at the history of Jakiw Palij, who died in Germany this week
By Michael R. Sisak and Randy Herschaft
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)
January 11, 2019, 12:50 am
The last Nazi in America: Camp guard deported by US last year dies in Germany
Jakiw Palij ,95, was last known Nazi war criminal living in US when removed from New York home after 25-year effort; dies in nursing home after Berlin declines to prosecute him
By David Rising
This 1949 photo provided by the US Department of Justice shows a US visa photo of Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who had been living in the Queens borough of New York. (US Department of Justice via AP)
September 1, 2018, 5:30 am
Poland asks US for files on deported ex-Nazi guard
Prosecutor says documents may help ‘fill in the gaps’ on whether Jakiw Palij, now 95, took part in liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, frame from video, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. (ABC via AP)
August 21, 2018, 11:21 pm
Groups hail deportation of ex-Nazi guard after years in limbo
Envoy says Trump made sending 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard Jakiw Palij to Germany a priority
By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom, March 2012. (AP/Matthias Schrader)
August 21, 2018, 6:52 pm
US has deported at least 67 suspected Nazi war criminals
Jakiw Palij latest to be expelled from country, though only 137 of estimated 10,000 suspected Nazis ever faced legal proceedings
By AP
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)
August 21, 2018, 1:58 pm
US deports 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard to Germany
Jakiw Palij, who gained entry to America using false information, has admitted to serving at the Trawniki concentration site but denies committing war crimes
By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Former Nazi guard Jakiw Palij seen at his home in Queens, New York City. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 10, 2017, 1:33 am
Marking Kristallnacht, Jewish teens rally outside NY home of ex-Nazi guard
Demonstrators demand 94-year-old Jakiw Palij, a former guard at the Trawniki concentration camp, be deported from US
By David Jeans
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