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RG-06.029 United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI) Denaturalization

Cases Transcripts and Decisions, (1958) 1979-2005

United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions,

(1958) 1979-2005. RG-06.029, 2008.205

Updated on 1 March 2010

Acc. Number: 2008.205 RG Number: RG-06.029 Language: English. Title: United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI),

Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions, (1958) 1979-2005. Extent: 49 archival boxes. Arrangement and Organization: Organized into two series. Series 1: United States Department

of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts, (1958) 1979-2005; Series 2: United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Decisions, (????) 19??-200?. Within the first series the transcripts are arranged alphabetically by the surname. [Second series has not arrived yet. 2/3/09.]

Scope and content note: Consists of paper copies of transcripts of more than 40

denaturalization and removal cases that OSI and/or, in some instances, other components of the Department of Justice, litigated to trial, as well as the transcripts of hearings in the two contested extradition matters in which OSI participated. These transcripts are uncorrected stenographic transcripts. The OSI decisions consist of copies of published and unpublished decisions relating to the final dispositions of OSI’s denaturalization, removal and extradition matters, as well as interim decisions and orders on a variety of important legal topics relating to the litigation of those matters.

Standard Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections

Division, Archives Branch.

Location of Originals: The original trial records are records of the specific court in which the case was tried: Records of District Courts of the United States (United States National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21, 1685-1993.)

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.



Restrictions on Use: No restrictions on use. Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: The United States Department of Justice transferred

the copies of the court materials (OSI decisions and OSI transcripts) created by the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2008.

Ownership and Custodial History: These materials were created in connection with litigation

brought by the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations and/or, in some instances, by other components of the Department of Justice, against naturalized United States citizens or United States residents who were alleged to have participated in acts of persecution perpetrated on behalf of the former Nazi government of Germany or its allies. The United States Department of Justice donated the copies of the court materials (OSI decisions and OSI transcripts) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2008.

Container List RG-06.029 Box 1

.029.01*01 Artukovic, Andrija – 1958, 1984-1985 (Folders 1-7 of 9) [No Allegation Summary available.] Extradition (U.S. District Court, Los Angeles, CA, 1958) (pre-OSI).

Extradition (U.S. District Court, Los Angeles, CA, 1984-1985). (Missing the 24 June 1958 transcript, pp. 1-495; and the following

pages: 8 Jan 1985 transcripts p. 131; 30 Jan 1985 transcripts p. 8; 31 Jan 1985 transcripts p. 39; 27 Feb 1985 transcript’s p. 12)

Box 2

.029.01*01 Artukovic, Andrija – 1958, 1984-1985 (Folders 8-9 of 9) .029.01*02 Baumann, Anton – 1991 (2 folders)

(Member of the Waffen-SS, served as an armed guard at the Stutthof and Buchenwald Concentration Camps, in Poland and Germany, respectively.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Milwaukee, WI, 1991).

.029.01*03 Blach, Bruno – 1986 (Folder 1 of 4)



(Armed SS guard and dog handler at Nazi Concentration Camps at Dachau in Germany and at Wiener Neudorf in Nazi-annexed Austria.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Los Angeles, CA, 1986).

Box 3

.029.01*03 Blach, Bruno – 1986 (Folders 2-4 of 4) .029.01*04 Breyer, Johann – 1993, 1997 (3 folders)

(Armed SS guard at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany and the Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1993). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1997).

.029.01*05 Breyer v. Meissner – 2002 (Folder 1 of 3) (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 2002).

(See details at Johann Breyer)

Box 4

.029.01*05 Breyer v. Meissner – 2002 (Folders 2-3 of 3) .029.01*06 Ciurinskas, Kazys – 1995 (Folders 1-5 of 6)

(Member of the 2nd/12th Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Hammond, IN, 1995).

Box 5

.029.01*06 Ciurinskas, Kazys – 1995 (Folder 6 of 6) .029.01*07 Dalide, Algimandas – 2002 (4 folders)

(Served in the "Communists-Jews" Section of the Lithuanian Security Police in Vilnius, Nazi-occupied Lithuania.)

Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Bradenton, FL, 2002).

Box 6 .029.01*08 Demjanjuk, John – 1981-2001 (Folders 1-8 of 27)

(Armed SS guard at the Sobibor Death Camp, the Majdanek concentration camp, and at Trawniki SS Training and Base Camp, all in Nazi-occupied Poland, and at the Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany. (Note: On July 30, 1993, the Supreme Court of Israel, while confirming Demjanjuk's documented service at Sobibor and Trawniki, reversed his 1988 conviction, ruling that new evidence cast reasonable doubt on the Treblinka allegations.)



Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Cleveland, OH, 1981). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Cleveland, OH, 1983-1984). Extradition (U.S. District Court, Cleveland, OH, 1985). Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Cleveland, OH, 2001). (Missing pages: 18 Feb 1981 transcript’s p. 471; 3 March 1981 transcript’s p.994; 4 March 1981 transcript’s pp. 1051-1052)

Box 7

.029.01*08 Demjanjuk, John – 1981-2001 (Folders 9-14 of 27) Box 8

.029.01*08 Demjanjuk, John – 1981-2001 (Folders 15-21 of 27)

Box 9

.029.01*08 Demjanjuk, John – 1981-2001 (Folders 22-27 of 27) Box 10

.029.01*09 Dercacz, Michael – 1983 (2 folders) (Uniformed police officer in the Ukrainian Police Command in L'vov (Lviv), Ukraine, and was stationed in Nazi-occupied Jaryzow-Nowy (Nowy Yarychev), Lvov region, Galicia district, Ukraine.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, New York, NY, 1983).1

.029.01*10 Detlavs, Karlis – 1977-1979 (Folders 1-4 of 6) (Member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Baltimore, MD, 1977-1979) (pre-OSI).

Box 11

.029.01*10 Detlavs, Karlis – 1977-1979 (Folders 5-6 of 6)

.029.01*11 Fedorenko, Feodor – 1978-1981 (Folders 1-5 of 18) (Armed SS guard at the Treblinka Death Camp in Poland after training at the Trawniki base and training camp in Poland. Also served in Lublin at the Jewish ghetto in spring 1942.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Waterbury, CT, and Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1978) (pre-OSI).

1 The last information in the material is that “…the trial was adjourned until June 23, 1983.” According to Eli M.

Rosenbaum, Director of USDOJ-OSI “[t]he transcript is complete. The trial was adjourned to the following day but,

due to counsel’s medical condition, trial was subsequently postponed to a later date. The trial was then terminated

on October 6, 1983, as a result of Dercacz’ death on August 8, 1983.” (Letter to USHMM, May 14, 2009.)



Box 12

.029.01*11 Fedorenko, Feodor – 1978-1981 (Folders 6-13 of 18)

Box 13 .029.01*11 Fedorenko, Feodor – 1978-1981 (Folders 14-18 of 18)

.029.01*12 Firishchak, Osyp – 2005 (Folders 1-4 of 6) (Member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in L’viv (L’vov), Ukraine.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Chicago, IL, 2005).

Box 14

.029.01*12 Firishchak, Osyp – 2005 (Folders 5-6 of 6) .029.01*13 Gruber, Michael – 2000 (2 folders) (Armed SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in

Germany.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, New York, NY, 2000). .029.01*14 Hajda, Bronislaw – 1997 (3 folders) (Armed SS guard based at the SS Training and Base Camp at Trawniki and at the Treblinka Labor

Camp, both in Nazi-occupied Poland. Later served in the SS Battalion Streibel.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Chicago, IL, 1997).

Box 15

.029.01*15 Hammer, Ferdinand – 1996-1997 (4 folders) (Armed SS guard at the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camps and armed SS

guard on inmate transports from Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen and from Sachsenhausen to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Hammer was subsequently ordered transferred to the Flossenburg concentration camp.)

Deturalization (U.S. District Court, Detroit, MI, 1996). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Detroit, MI, 1997). .029.01*16 Hazners, Vilis – 1977-1978 (Folders 1-2 of 6) (Officer in the Latvian Self Defense Group and later the

Schutzmannschaft.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Albany, NY, 1977-1978) (pre-OSI).

Box 16



.029.01*16 Hazners, Vilis – 1977-1978 (Folders 3-6 of 6) .029.01*17 Kairys, Liudas – 1982 (Folders 1-3 of 9) (Armed guard and guard platoon leader at the Treblinka Labor Camp in Poland. Also served as a

guard at the Trawniki SS Training Camp in Poland and its detachment in Lublin, Poland (the "Lublin Kommando").)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Chicago, IL, 1982).

Box 17 .029.01*17 Kairys, Liudas – 1982 (Folders 4-9 of 9)

Box 18 .029.01*18 Kalejs, Konrad – 1988 (Folders 1-6 of 8) (Officer in the "Arajs Kommando" (the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police) and in the Loknja

detachment of Einsatzgruppe "A" in Latvia and Russia, and guard supervisor at Salaspils Concentration Camp near Riga, Latvia.)

Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Chicago, IL, 1988). (Missing pages: 25 Apr 1988 transcript’s pp.928 and 949)

Box 19 .029.01*18 Kalejs, Konrad – 1988 (Folders 7-8 of 8) .029.01*19 Kalymon, John – 2006 (5 folders) (Member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in L’viv (L'vov), Ukraine.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Detroit, MI, 2006).

Box 20 .029.01*20 Kowalchuk, Serge – 1981-1982 (4 folders) (Served with the Ukrainian Police in Lubomyl.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1981-1982). .029.01*21 Koziy, Bohdan – 1981-1982 (Folders 1-2 of 16) (Ukrainian policeman in Stanislau region.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, West Palm Beach, FL, 1981). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Miami, FL, 1982).

Box 21 .029.01*21 Koziy, Bohdan – 1981-1982 (Folders 3-8 of 16)

Box 22 .029.01*21 Koziy, Bohdan – 1981-1982 (Folders 9-15 of 16)



Box 23

.029.01*21 Koziy, Bohdan – 1981-1982 (Folder 16 of 16) .029.01*22 Kulle, Reinhold – 1983 (Folders 1-6 of 21) (Armed SS guard, guard leader, and SS instructor with the SS Death's Head Battalion at the

Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Chicago, IL, 1983). (Missing pages: 20 Sep 1983 transcript’s p. 2288; 16 Noc 1983 transcript’s p. 2844)

Box 24 .029.01*22 Kulle, Reinhold – 1983 (Folders 7-13 of 21)

Box 25 .029.01*22 Kulle, Reinhold – 1983 (Folders 14-21 of 21)

Box 26 .029.01*23 Kungys, Juozas – 1983 (Folders 1-8 of 10) (Member of locally-formed group that participated with occupying Nazi forces in the murder of

over 2,000 Jews in Kedainiai, Lithuania.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Newark, NJ, 1983).

Box 27 .029.01*23 Kungys, Juozas – 1983 (Folders 9-10 of 10) .029.01*24 Kwoczak, Fedir – 2000 (5 folders) (Armed SS auxiliary trained at the SS Training and Base Camp at Trawniki, in Nazi-occupied

Poland. Served at the Trawniki labor camp and the Poniatowa labor camp (both in Poland), took part in the 1943 Nazi liquidation of the Jewish ghettos in Warsaw and Bialystok, Poland, and later served in the SS Battalion Streibel, which guarded Polish civilian forced laborers at sites in Poland.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 2000).

Box 28 .029.01*25 Laipenieks, Edgar – 1982 (8 folders) (Member of the Latvian Political Police in Riga.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, San Diego, CA, 1982). (Missing page: 16 Feb 1982 transcript’s p.994)

Box 29 .029.01*26 Lindert, George – 1995 (Folders 1-8 of 12)



(Armed SS guard at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp and Loibl Pass subcamp in Austria.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Cleveland, OH, 1995).

Box 30 .029.01*26 Lindert, George – 1995 (Folders 9-12 of 12) .029.01*27 Linnas, Karl – 1984-1985 (Folders 1-3 of 6) (Chief and commander of the guards at the Nazi concentration camp in Tartu, Estonia.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Westbury, Long Island, NY, 1981). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, New York, NY, 1984-1985). (Missing page: 18 June 1981 transcript’s p. 357) [For more information please consult in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Archives collection RG-06.026, Estonian State Archives of the Former Estonian KGB (State Security Committee), records relating to war crime investigations and trials in Estonia, 1940-1987.]

Box 31

.029.01*27 Linnas, Karl – 1984-1985 (Folders 4-6 of 6) .029.01*28 Maikovskis, Boleslavs – 1977, 1981-1982 (Folders 1-4 of 9) (Chief of the Second Police Precinct in Rezekne, Latvia.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, New York, NY, 1977) (pre-OSI). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, New York, NY, 1981-1982).

Box 32 .029.01*28 Maikovskis, Boleslavs – 1977, 1981-1982 (Folders 5-9 of 9) .029.01*29 Mandycz, Iwan – 2004 (Folders 1-3 of 6) (Armed SS auxiliary trained at the SS Training and Base Camp at Trawniki, in Nazi-occupied

Poland. Served as an armed guard at the Trawniki labor camp and the Poniatowa labor camp (both in Poland). Later, he was transferred to Germany to serve as an armed guard in the Nazi system of permanent concentration camps run by the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Flint, MI, 2004).

Box 33 .029.01*29 Mandycz, Iwan – 2004 (Folders 4-6 of 6) .029.01*30 Naujalis, Juozas – 1996-1997 (6 folders) (Member of the 2nd/12th Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Chicago, IL, 1996-1997).

Box 34



.029.01*31 Negele, Michael – 1999 (5 folders) (Armed SS guard at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany; later ordered

transferred to the Plaszow Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Also: Armed SS guard and dog handler at the Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto, which Defendant revealed during discovery and which was added via an amended complaint.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, St. Louis, MO, 1999).

Box 35A .029.01*32 Osidach, Wolodymir – 1980 (6 folders) (Served in the Ukrainian Police in Rawa-Ruska, Ukraine.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1980). (Missing pages: 17 Sep 1980 transcript’s pp. 75-84)

Box 35B .029.01*33 Paal, Stephen -1990 (non-OSI) (3 folders) [No Allegation Summary available.] Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Honolulu, HI, 1990). .029.01*34 Palciauskas, Kazys – 1982-1986 (Folders 1-4 of 8) (Mayor of Nazi-occupied Kaunas, Lithuania.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Tampa, FL, 1982). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Newport News, VA, 1986).

Box 36 .029.01*34 Palciauskas, Kazys – 1982-1986 (Folders 5-8 of 8) .029.01*35 Petkiewytsch, Leonid – 1986 (Folders 1-3 of 11) (Armed guard at Kiel-Hassee (/k/a “Nordmark” and “Russee”), a Gestapo-run "labor education"

camp in Germany.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Cincinnati, OH, 1986).

Box 37 .029.01*35 Petkiewytsch, Leonid – 1986 (Folders 4-11 of 11)

Box 38 .029.01*36 Reimer, Jack – 1998 (Folders 1-8 of 10) (Trainer and non-commissioned officer at the SS base and training camp at Trawniki, Poland;

participated in the liquidation of the Jewish ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, and Czestochowa, Poland, and later served as a member of the SS Battalion Streibel.)

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, New York, NY, 1998).

Box 39



.029.01*36 Reimer, Jack – 1998 (Folders 9-10 of 10) .029.01*37 Schellong, Conrad – 1982-1984 (5 folders) (Served in various SS guard companies at the Sachsenburg and Dachau Concentration Camps in

Germany, first as an armed guard and later as a company commander.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Chicago, IL, 1982). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Chicago, IL, 1984). (Missing pages: 25 May 1982 transcript’s pp. 141 and 144)

Box 40 .029.01*38 Schiffer, Nikolaus – 1993-1996 (Folders 1-6 of 8) (Armed SS guard at the Sachsenhausen, Majdanek, and Hersbrueck Concentration Camps, and

served at the SS Training and Base Camp at Trawniki, Poland.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1993). Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1996).

Box 41 .029.01*38 Schiffer, Nikolaus – 1993-1996 (Folders 7-8 of 8) .029.01*39 Sokolov, Vladimir – 1985 (Folders 1-5 of 8) (Pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic propagandist employed by propaganda units of the armed forces of Nazi

Germany in Orel, Russia.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Waterbury, CT, 1985). (Missing page: 14 Nov 1985 transcript’s p. 166)

Box 42 .029.01*39 Sokolov, Vladimir – 1985 (Folders 6-8 of 8) .029.01*40 Sprogis, Elmars – 1983 (Foldres 1-4 of 5) (Assistant Chief of Police in Gulbene, Latvia.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Uniondale, Long Island, NY, 1983). (Missing page: 5 Oct 1983 transcript’s p. 322)

Box 43 .029.01*40 Sprogis, Elmars – 1983 (Foldres 5 of 5) .029.01*41 Stelmokas, Jonas – 1995 (5 folders) (Platoon commander in the 3rd/11th Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft, based in Kaunas (Kovno),

Lithuania; Commander of the Guards at the Jewish Ghetto in Kaunas.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 1995).

Box 44



.029.01*42 Szehinskyj, Theodor – 2000 (5 folders) (Armed SS guard at the Gross Rosen, Sachsenhausen, and Warsaw Concentration Camps.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA, 2000). .029.01*43 Theodorovich, George – 1985 (Folder 1 of 7) (Member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in L’viv (L'vov), Ukraine.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Baltimore, MD, 1985).

Box 45 .029.01*43 Theodorovich, George – 1985 (Folders 2-7 of 7)

Box 46 .029.01*44 Tittjung, Anton – 1990 (3 folders) (Armed SS guard at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Nazi-annexed Austria and its Gross

Raming subcamp.) Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Milwaukee, WI, 1990). .029.01*45 Trifa, Valerian – 1982 (2 folders) (Member of the fascist "Iron Guard," president of the National Union of Romanian Christian

Students, editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper Libertatea.) Removal (U.S. Immigration Court, Detroit, MI, 1982). .029.01*46 Walus, Frank (non-OSI) – 1978 (Folders 1-3 of 15) (Member of the German Gestapo in Kielce and Czestochowa, Poland (Note: This case was filed

and tried prior to OSI's 1979 creation. In 1978, the court awarded judgment to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, entering a denaturalization order against Walus. In 1980, however, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Walus' 1978 denaturalization, ruling that newly-discovered evidence strongly corroborated his alibi.))

Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Chicago, IL, 1978) (pre-OSI).

Box 47 .029.01*46 Walus, Frank (non-OSI) – 1978 (Folders 4-10 of 15)

Box 48 .029.01*46 Walus, Frank (non-OSI) – 1978 (Folders 11-15 of 15) .029.01*47 Zajanckauskas, Vladas – 2005 (3 folders) (SS auxiliary trained at the SS Training and Base Camp at Trawniki, in Nazi-occupied Poland. He

was promoted to NCO rank there and served as a trainer of other Trawniki men. As an NCO in the training course, he led the men serving under him in participating in the April-May 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. He later served in the Streibel Battalion.)



Denaturalization (U.S. District Court, Boston, MI, 2005).

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