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HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (1010 WINS) -- A former Nazi prison guard who has lived in Hamilton Township in Atlantic County for the past 30 years probably won't be deported because his health is rapidly declining, according to federal officials. Jaclyn Lesch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice, told the Press of Atlantic City for Saturday newspapers that 85-year-old Andrew Kuras' is "gravely ill" and that his "deportation is under review." Kuras had been ordered deported in 2004 by a federal judge in Camden. The judge also revoked his 1962 naturalization certificate and other citizenship documents. Kuras joined German...

Judge raps Queens man A 79-year-old suspected former Nazi camp guard now living in Queens was stripped of his citizenship by a federal judge. Jakiw Palij, who allegedly served as an armed guard in the notorious Trawniki slave labor camp in Poland, where 6,000 Jews were slaughtered in a two-day massacre in 1943, now faces deportation. The SS-sponsored spree at Trawniki - code-named Operation Harvest Festival - along with the murders of 36,000 at two other camps in Poland, was the largest two-day German killing operation against Jews during World War II, according to court papers. Federal prosecutors did not...