Like most of the Nazis who entered the US following the war - including 17 others who had trained at Trawniki - Palij posed as a refugee and concealed his Nazi past from US immigration authorities. Heinrich Himmler, center left, shaking hands with new guard recruits at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. “By helping to prevent the escape of these prisoners during his service at Trawniki, Palij played an indispensable role in ensuring that they later met their tragic fate at the hands of the Nazis,” according to a DOJ statement. On November 3, 1943, some 6,000 Jewish men, women and children were shot to death at the camp, one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust. Palij admitted to the Justice Department in 2001 that he was trained at the Trawniki site in Nazi-occupied Poland, which served as both a concentration camp and boot camp for the SS, the black-uniformed paramilitary units of the Nazi Party and the most ruthless organization in the Third Reich.
“There were hundreds of thousands of perpetrators of Nazi crimes and the vast majority never left Europe,” said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Department of Justice’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, the Nazi-hunting agency responsible for investigating Palij and removing him from the US.Īccording to Rosenbaum, the Palij case was a Herculean effort that took hundreds of hours of research and nearly two decades to accomplish, in cooperation with various federal agencies. His family denies that he was involved in any war crimes. Poland has issued an arrest warrant for Karkoc and is actively seeking his extradition. Karkoc allegedly commanded a faction of the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion when the group raided the Polish village of Chlaniow in 1944, murdering 44 civilians. In addition to Palij, Michael Karkoc, a 99-year-old resident of Minneapolis, has been accused of collaborating with the Third Reich. Zuroff, who has been hunting Nazis since 1978, estimates that some 10,000 Nazi collaborators entered the US illegally after the Second World War, and there may be hundreds still scattered around the world, with most of them living in Austria and Germany. People without a conscience seem to live longer.” There are a lot of Nazis out there who were born after 1920 and are still alive. “As soon as the news hit about Palij, I got calls from people who suddenly realized that their neighbors might be Nazis. “It was immediate,” Zuroff, 70, told The Post.
Nazi war crimes suspect living in Queens gets deported
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