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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Randy Herschaft

Brothers Alexander Feingold, left, and Joseph Feingold look at photo of themselves as boys in Joseph's apartment in New York on June 8, 2015 (Raphaela Neihausen via AP)
May 14, 2020, 12:31 pm
Virus stops final goodbye for Holocaust survivor brothers who died weeks apart
Polish-born Joe Feingold, 97, died of COVID-19 complications at New York hospital where Alex, 95, succumbed to pneumonia a month earlier
By Vanessa Gera and Randy Herschaft
Illustrative: A patient is evacuated from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, California, April 8, 2020. (Chris Carlson/AP)
April 12, 2020, 10:43 pm
US nursing home deaths from coronavirus pass 2,700, in alarming surge
Figure climbs from 450 just 10 days ago; experts say toll likely higher, as not all those who die are checked for disease
By Bernard Condon and Randy Herschaft
In this May 2014 file photo, Michael Karkoc works in his yard in Minneapolis. Karkoc, a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities, died December 14, 2019, according to cemetery and public records. (Richard Sennott/Star Tribune via AP)
January 22, 2020, 12:10 am
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies
Michael Karkoc commanded a company in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion that murdered dozens of Polish women and children in 1944, then lied to US authorities about it
By Amy Forliti, Steve Karnowski and Randy Herschaft
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
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a ceremony at the Synagogue Rykestrasse in Berlin on November 9, 2018 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
November 9, 2018, 7:10 pm
In synagogue on Kristallnacht anniversary, Merkel warns against anti-Semitism
Amid rise in nationalism in the West, Germany marks 80 years since pogrom that heralded Nazi’s drive to wipe out Jews
By Geir Moulson and Randy Herschaft
The July 1941 pogrom in Lviv (or Lvov), in Ukraine, when 4,000 Jews were massacred (public domain)
September 2, 2018, 5:41 pm
Ukrainian city remembers slain Jews on Holocaust anniversary
Ceremony in city of Lviv, once home to the third-largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, comes amid efforts to preserve memory of murdered population
By Vanessa Gera, Randy Herschaft and YEVHEN KRAVTS
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
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
Joseph Harmatz sits in his apartment in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)
August 31, 2016, 1:29 pm
Jewish avenger’s sole regret: No Nazis died in post-war arsenic plot
70 years later, it’s still not clear why bid to poison 12,000 SS men held by the Americans in Nuremberg failed; Joseph Harmatz, 91, is adamant that it was his ‘duty’ to try
By Aron Heller and Randy Herschaft
The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)
December 19, 2014, 12:30 am
Obama signs legislation ending US benefit checks for Nazis
Former war criminals continued collecting Social Security despite expulsion and loss of citizenship
By Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
SS officials including Heinrich Himmler visit the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. (CC-BY-SA-3.0-de , German Federal Archives)
October 21, 2014, 2:09 am
White House: Nazis shouldn’t get Social Security
In response to AP report, US government does not say whether or how it might end benefit payments
By Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
Illustration. Nazi officers in WWII. (Flash90)
October 20, 2014, 3:59 am
Nazis expelled from US were paid millions in Social Security
At least four suspected war criminals still get US government payments thanks to legal loophole, investigation finds
By Richard Lardner, David Rising and Randy Herschaft
People walk past the home of 94-year-old Michael Karkoc in Minneapolis, June 14, 2013. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)
November 19, 2013, 7:31 am
SS man living in US ordered massacre, new evidence shows
German prosecutor to recommend that 94-year-old Michael Karkoc be charged for murder in attack on Polish village in 1944
By David Rising and Randy Herschaft
This 1956 file photo from a naturalization document released August 16, 2007 by the US Department of Justice shows Vladas Zajanckauskas. (photo credit: AP Photo/US Department of Justice)
July 30, 2013, 3:49 pm
Many Nazi suspects ordered out of US don’t leave
At least 10 men uncovered with Nazi pasts have been able to stay in US, and pull benefits, while stuck in legal limbo
By Amy Forliti and Randy Herschaft
Heinrich Himmler, center, reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division, June 3, 1944. (AP/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Atlantic Foto Verlag Berlin)
June 14, 2013, 4:55 pm
Ex-commander of SS-led unit living in US
Michael Karkoc, 94, lied to American immigration authorities about role in Ukrainian Self Defense Legion during World War II
By David Rising, MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Randy Herschaft
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