200 Protest at Home of Nazi Collaborator
About 200 people picketed outside the Lansdowne, Pa., home of a former member of a Lithuanian police force that helped Nazis kill Jews to protest delays in his deportation. “It has nothing to do with us being Jews. It has everything to do with our America fighting these guys in World War II and now he’s living in America’s back yard,” said Matthew Burg, 17, a student at Rambam Mesivta Maimonides High School in Lawrence, N.Y. Most of the protesters came on buses from the high school. Jonas Stelmokas, 81, a retired architect who has lived in the neighborhood for decades, kept his blinds drawn. A federal judge revoked Stelmokas’ citizenship in 1995, concluding that Stelmokas hid his membership in the Third Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalion from U.S. immigration officials after World War II.
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