WASHINGTON—A 95-year-old former Nazi labor camp guard who had been living in Queens, New York, for decades was deported to Germany on Aug. 20, according to U.S. officials.
Jakiw Palij worked as an armed guard at the Trawniki slave-labor camp for Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He hid his involvement from immigration officials, both when he immigrated from Germany in 1949 and when he subsequently became a U.S. citizen in 1957.
