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- From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: U.S. Govt. Files Complaint to Revoke Citizenship of Tennessee Man
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.025838.16259@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:58:38 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the U.S. Justice Department
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- Justice Department Files Complaint to Revoke Citizenship of
- Tennessee Resident
- To: National Desk, Tennessee Correspondents
- Contact: Kathy St. Dennis of the U.S. Department of Justice,
- 202-514-2007
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- WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice
- today filed a complaint to revoke the citizenship of Jozsef Szendi of
- Cookeville, Tenn., for taking part in the persecution of unarmed
- Jewish civilians and others while a member of a para-military group
- responsible for the enslavement and deportation of much of Hungary's
- Jewish population during World War II.
- The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville by the
- Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of the Justice Department's
- Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle
- District of Tennessee.
- Szendi's activities included taking part in a raid on a building
- in Budapest where Jews were hidden by a rescue program headed by
- Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the complaint said.
- Szendi voluntarily joined the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie and
- personally transported Jewish civilians from Budapest to the German
- SS in Poland, the complaint said. From 1939 to 1941, the Gendarmerie
- deported 16,000 to 18,000 Jewish civilians to Poland, where the SS
- shot them to death.
- The complaint said that in 1944 Szendi participated in confining
- Hungarian Jews to ghettos and deporting them to the Auschwitz
- concentration camp in Poland, where most were murdered in the camp's
- gas chambers.
- Szendi later became a member of the armed commando wing of a
- Hungarian terrorist organization, the National Organization of
- Accountability, that was responsible for assaults, torture, and
- killings of public officials, diplomats, political figures, and
- unarmed Jewish civilians, the complaint said.
- The complaint said Szendi personally assisted in the persecution
- of unarmed Jews and others. The assistance included taking part in a
- 1944 armed raid on a building in Budapest in search of Jews hidden
- there by a rescue program directed by Wallenberg, the complaint said.
- Szendi misrepresented and concealed his past activities when
- applying for immigration to the United States in 1956 under the
- Refugee Relief Act of 1953 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of
- 1952 and subsequently when petitioning for U.S. citizenship in 1964,
- according to the complaint.
- To date, 42 Nazi persecutors have been stripped of U.S.
- citizenship as a result of OSI's investigations and prosecutions,
- and 30 have been removed from the United States.
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