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Article: Nazi order incriminating ex-Worcester man donated.(NEW ENGLAND)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2008
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WASHINGTON - The paper had yellowed, its edges frayed. But it clearly bore the signature of Lithuanian policeman Aleksandras Lileikis, ordering a Jewish woman and her 6-year-old daughter to be shot in a Nazi death pit in 1941.
With that, the U.S. Justice Department was able to prove that the elderly Massachusetts man had decades earlier committed Nazi war crimes and to order him from the country.
Lileikis emigrated to the United States in 1955. He lived in Worcester from about 1957 to 1961. He then moved to Norwood, where he lived for many years.
The death warrant was one of about 50,000 Justice Department trial documents donated yesterday to ...