‘NEW YORK NAZI’, 95, GETS DEPORTED
A 95-YEAR-OLD former Nazi camp guard Jakiw Palij has been deported to Germany 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his World War II past and he admitted lying to get into the US, claiming he spent the war as a farmer and factory worker.
Palij lived quietly in the US for years, as a draftsman and then as a retiree, until nearly 30 years ago when investigators found his name on an old Nazi roster. A judge stripped Palij’s citizenship in 2003 for “participation in acts against Jewish civilians” while a guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazioccupied Poland, and he was ordered deported a year later.
But because Germany, Poland and other countries refused to take him, he kept living in limbo in Queens, until renewed negotiations this year finally secured his deportation.