The Supreme Court was urged Wednesday to affirm a lower court’s decision to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Juozas Kungys, who is accused of participating in the massacre of 2,000 Jewish men, women and children in the forests outside of Kedainiai, Lithuania, in the summer of 1941.
Separate amicus briefs were filed by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and the World Jewish Congress, arguing that Kungys’ alleged past activities were “material” to his application for an entry visa to the U.S. after World War II and his subsequent application for naturalization. He became a citizen in 1954.
In June 1986, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a lower court decision which held that lies told by Kungys to obtain a visa and citizenship were not “material.”
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