Rally Against Former Nazi

Metropolitan area survivors of the Riga Ghetto announced today that they would hold a demonstration tomorrow in Mincola, NY, in front of the home of Boleslav Maikowskis who has been identified by the survivors as a Latvian who collaborated with the Nazis in his native country during World War II. According to one of the participants in the demonstration, Maikowskis was sentenced to death in absentia by a Riga court in the mid-1960s as a “mass murderer.” The informant said he was chief of the security police in Riga and that his name is currently on the list of the U.S. Immigration Service as one of the 33 persons suspected or accused of war crimes now living in this country.

Last month the U.S. Immigration commissioner. Gen. Leonard Chapman Jr., told an audience of survivors of Nazi mass murders that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service was conducting “full-scale and comprehensive investigations” on 33 such individuals. Chapman, who made this statement at a news conference in the New York office of the service headed by Sol Marks, which has been named the National Control Office for Nazi Criminals said that 7 of the 33 cases are in the New York area, two in Newark and the rest in various parts of the country.

The press conference followed a charge made earlier last month by Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D.NY) that at least 38 Nazi war criminals are being allowed to remain in the U.S. because the U.S. immigration Service has neglected to move against them. She said that some alleged war criminals have been in this country almost 25 years and that 25 of the 38 have become naturalized U.S. citizens There is no statute of limitation on deportation, Rep. Holtzman said.