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Washington (JTA) — The
Justice Department has pre-
sented new evidence of a
Philadelphia-area man's
alleged World War II
atrocities against Jews in a
new effort to withdraw his
U.S. citizenship.
The man, Jonas
Stelmokas, is a prominent
member of Philadelphia's
Lithuanian-American com-
munity and has lived in this
country since 1949.
The Justice Department's
Office of Special Investiga-
tions said evidence of Mr.
Stelmokas' wartime crimes
was so devastating that
there should be no need for a
denaturalization trial.
Justice Department docu-
ments filed in U.S. District
Court in Philadelphia
charged that the 77-year-old
Mr. Stelmokas, a retired
architect, was a platoon
commander of a Lithuanian
police battalion involved in a
so-called "cleansing" opera-
tion of the Jewish ghetto in
Kaunas (Kovno) on Oct. 29,
1941.
The documents say that
9,200 Jews, almost half of
them children, died in mass
executions that took place
that day.
OSI also charged that Mr.
Stelmokas had been in the
"chain of command" of a
police unit involved in the
mass executions of Jews in
south-central Lithuania on
Sept. 11 and 12, 1941; and
that he was commander of
Lithuanian guards in the
Kovno Ghetto on Sept. 16
and 17, 1941, when his men
shot at least seven Jews, two
of them fatally.
The complaint also charg-
ed that Mr. Stelmokas was
in the chain of command of a
police unit that hunted Jews
trying to escape from a labor
camp in April 1944, in which
at least one slave laborer
was killed.
The Justice Department
and U.S. Attorney Michael
Baylson first charged Mr.
Stelmokas with Nazi crimes
in June 1992, saying he lied
about his past when he ap-
plied for a U.S. visa in 1949
and for his American
citizenship in 1954.
He was naturalized in
1955 and made no mention
of any of the activities with
which he has been charged
in his sworn statement to a
naturalization examiner.
OSI obtained its informa-
tion from archives that the
independent Lithuanian
government made available
to war-crimes investigators,

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