Expel bid in Qns. case

THE MOVE to expel Nazi concentration camp guard Jakiw Palij from his Queens home is gaining momentum.

Republican Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Lee Zeldin of Long Island are researching options to kick out the 92-year-old (photo inset) who was a mem ber of Hitler’s SS and a guard at the Trawniki slave labor camp in German-occupied Poland, state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Tuesday.

“The rights and freedoms we enjoy in America should not extend to those who facilitated the death of countless innocent people,” Hikind said.

“Palij’s presence here mocks the memory of the millions who perished.”

In 2004, the Department of Justice convinced a federal judge to strip Palij of his U.S. citizenship. Afterward, an immigration judge ordered he be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine.

But those countries have refused to take him in.

For the past several years, students from the Rambam Mesivta yeshiva in Lawrence, L.I., have held protests outside his two-story Jackson Heights home on Jan. 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Palij came to the U.S. in 1949 claiming to be a farmer. He became a citizen in 1957.

During court proceedings, Palij contended that he, and other young men, were forced into working for the Nazi occupiers.