The United States vs. Vladas Zajanckauskas transcript

Identifier
irn517272
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.280
Dates
1 Jan 2005 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

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Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Scope and Content

Contains trial transcripts of United States vs. Vladas Zajanckauskas, which took place in Boston, MA, in January 2005. During the trial, in which the Government was represented by the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Mr. Zajanckauskas gave testimony regarding his wartime activites in the Trawniki Training Camp. Peter Black, senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, testifed for the government on the Trawniki camp, Mr. Zajanckauskas's service there, and the deployment of Mr. Zajanckauskas to Warsaw to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. The Federal District Court in Massachusetts revoked Mr. Zajanckauskas' citizenship after finding him to have willfully misrepresented his wartime activities on his visa application by concealing his service in Warsaw during the uprising in 1943.

Genre

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