Plea to Rex: Deport Nazi

THE OUTRAGE over the former Nazi death camp guard still living in Queens reached the State Department on Tuesday.

In a letter to Secretary of State Tillerson, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Queens) said time is running out to do the right thing and deport 92-year-old Jakiw Palij.

“The United States has long acknowledged that Nazi crimes were beyond heinous, and I urge you to proceed quickly on this matter,” Crowley told Tillerson, three weeks after he sent similar letters to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

“If action isn’t taken, it could mean that this individual may never face any form of justice,” he warned.

Palij (photo left), who lives in Jackson Heights, was a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in occupied Poland.

Trawniki was a training facility for death camp guards, and Jews were killed there as part of the exercises.

Palij, believed to be the last of his kind still living in the U.S., dodged deportation 13 years ago when Germany, Poland and Ukraine refused to take him.

A federal judge revoked the American citizenship he received after immigrating as a war refugee in 1949.

“I strongly urge you to take action on this matter in conjunction with other government agencies and identify a country that will accept Mr. Palij,” Crowley (photo right) wrote to Tillerson on Tuesday.

“There needs to be a strong diplomatic push behind this effort,” he urged. In his previous letters, Crowley asked federal officials to make sure Palij was not wrongfully receiving Social Security benefits.

Crowley’s effort follows an April protest outside Palij’s home by yeshiva students commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.

As a war criminal, Palij falls under the No Social Security for Nazis Act, which became law in 2014.

Palij has claimed he was forced to work as a guard and never personally killed anyone, but experts say that Nazi guards were chosen because they were pitiless and unwavering in the face of so much suffering.

ndillon@nydailynews.com