CLEVELAND, April 16 (UPI) -- The fight by the U.S. government to deport an elderly Cleveland man suspected of being a Nazi prison guard has ended with the man's death.
Polish-born Wasyl Krysa, 78, had been battling deportation for five years when he died April 6, the Cleveland Plain Dealer said Friday.
The U.S. Justice Department claimed Krysa lied about his past to immigration officials in 1951, and in 2001 U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan stripped Krysa of his citizenship.
Federal prosecutors said Krysa lived in the Polish village of Dyniska in 1943, when he was shipped off to work as a guard, first at the notorious Trawniki guard camp in Poland and later to a slave labor camp in Poniatowa.
There, Nazis killed more than 14,000 Jews on Nov. 4, 1943, but Krysa said he slept late that day and awoke to the sound of gunfire.
There are two other Nazi suspects before the courts in Ohio -- John Demjanjuk in Cleveland and Ildefonsas Bucmys, whose case is pending in federal court in Dayton.
