former Nazi prison guard Jakiw Palij has died in Germany. I am so thankful to @realDonaldTrump for making the case a priority. Removing the former Nazi prison guard from the US was something multiple Presidents just talked about - but President Trump made it happen.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 10, 2019
Palij was born in 1923 in what was known as Poland at the time and is modern-day Ukraine, where he served as a guard in Trawniki in 1941 ,when Poland was under Nazi occupation.Used by the SS as a training camp, the place also housed a labor camp where thousands of Jewish people perished, including 6,000 men who were killed in one day in 1943.Palij entered the US in 1949 and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. After his war-time activities became known, he was ordered to leave the country in 2004, yet neither Germany, Ukraine nor Poland agreed to accept him. Germany decided to accept him in 2018.