Ex-Nazi guard who lived in Jackson Heights dies
Longtime 89th Street resident deported on President Trump’s order in 2018 passes in Germany
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
Jakiw Palij, the ex-
Nazi guard who lived in
Jackson Heights until he
was deported at President
Trump’s order last year,
died in Germany on Jan. 10,
according to reports.
The BBC reports that
the 95-year-old former Nazi
collaborator died in a home
for the elderly in the town of
Ahlen. The U.S Ambassador
to Germany Richard Grenell
reported his passing on
Twitter.
For more than a decade
after learning that he worked
for the Nazis during the
Holocaust, Queens residents
had sought Palij’s expulsion
from the United States.
The former Nazi guard had
been living in an apartment
on 89th Street for years and
was initially stripped of his
naturalized citizenship in
2003. As recently as 2017,
hundreds gathered outside
Jakiw Palij died in Germany after being deported from the United States in 2018.
Palij’s home demanding his
deportation.
Palij was born in a part
of Poland that is now part of
Ukraine and in the spring
of 1943, trained at the SS
Courtesy of the Department of Justice
Training Camp in Trawniki,
in Nazi-occupied Poland.
On Nov. 3, 1943, 6,000 Jewish
men, women and children
that were incarcerated at
Trawniki were shot to death
as part of one of the largest
massacres of the Holocaust.
Palij played in instrumental
role in preventing the escape
of the prisoners and in
“Operation Reinhard,” the
Third Reich’s plan to murder
Jews in Poland.
Palij emigrated to the
United States in 1949 and
was granted naturalized
citizenship in 1957. But he
concealed his involvement
as a Nazi by telling U.S
immigration officials that
he had spent the war years
working on his father’s farm,
which was previously a part
of Poland and is now in
Ukraine, until 1944 and then
worked in a German factory.
In 2001, Palij admitted
to the Justice Department
officials that he was trained
at the SS Training Camp in
Trawniki. He was deported
by ICE in August 2018, sent
to Düsseldorf, Germany.
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