Alleged Nazi Past Threatens Man's Citizenship
An 89-year-old retired factory worker from Worcester County, America, denies that he killed Jews in a Warsaw ghetto during World War II, even though a Nazi roster lists his deployment there.
Vladas Zajanckauskas, a native of Lithuania now living in Millbury, faces the possibility of losing his U.S. citizenship. He told a federal judge that he only worked in the canteen of a Nazi training camp in Poland during the Holocaust.
Zajanckauskas is listed on the April 1943 roster as one of 351 guards deployed to conduct house-to-house searches during the killing of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. But his lawyers said the roster cannot be corroborated by other evidence.
Zajanckauskas became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1956. The Justice Department says he should never have been allowed into the country because he lied on his immigration forms.