Vladas Zajanckauskas, with his wife, Vladislava, in their Sutton cottage, is fighting deportation to Lithuania by US officials. Below, Zajanckauskas in a 1942 photo.
(BILL GREENE/GLOBE STAFF)
Two faces of a WWII case
To US, a Nazi war criminal; to family, a good man
Vladas Zajanckauskas, with his wife, Vladislava, in their Sutton cottage, is fighting deportation to Lithuania by US officials. Below, Zajanckauskas in a 1942 photo.
(BILL GREENE/GLOBE STAFF)
SUTTON - There are two Vladas Zajanckauskases. One was a high-ranking noncommissioned officer in a Nazi training camp who took part in one of the most heinous massacres of World War II, the 1943 liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. He lied about his war record to enter the United States. The blood of thousands of Jews is on his hands. ... (Full article: 1904 words)
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