Federal and Congressional officials responsible for ferreting out former Nazis living in the United States have declined to discuss reports published here and in Chicago that Liudas Kairys, 57, a native of Lithuania who resides in Chicago’s southwest side, is a former SS guard. The House Judiciary Subcommittee dealing with emigration and naturalization acknowledged the media reports but refused to discuss them. A Justice Department spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency he could not confirm or deny that it is investigating. Qualified sources, however, did not deny the reports were factually accurate and indicated that official U.S. comment is being withheld pending completion of the examination of the matter. According to media reports, Kairys was trained at the in famous Travniki “school for death” in German-occupied Poland and then assigned to Treblinka.
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