A U.S. immigration court ordered the deportation of an Illinois man accused of participating in a massacre of Jews at a Nazi slave labor camp in Poland, the Justice Department announced. Bronislaw Hajda lost his U.S. citizenship earlier this year when a federal appeals court determined that he lied in his 1950 U.S. citizenship application about his activities from 1943 to 1945 at the SS Trawniki training camp and the Treblinka labor camp. He is the 48th Nazi persecutor to be ordered deported from the United States since the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations began operations in 1979. There are 300 other people currently under investigation by the OSI.
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