A crowd of yeshiva students protested Monday outside the Queens home of Jakiw Palij — the last known Nazi concentration camp guard living in the United States — as they commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Scores of young people standing shoulder-to-shoulder held signs saying, “Your neighbor is a Nazi!” and “Germany, he’s your problem!” while the 92-year-old Palij stayed inside.
The demonstration outside Palij’s Jackson Heights home was organized by the Rambam Mesivta-Maimonides HS of Lawrence, LI.
Palij, who has claimed in the past that he was forced into the Nazi regime, moved to the United States in 1949.
Despite the outrage over his residency, neighbors have described him as “feeble old man” who isn’t a threat to anyone.
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