Aleksandras Lileikis | |
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| Born | 10 June 1907 |
| Died | 26 September 2000 (aged 93) |
| Citizenship | Lithuania United States (1976–1996) |
| Alma mater | University of Lithuania |
| Organization | Lithuanian Security Police |
| Criminal status | Died before trial ended |
| Criminal charge | Genocide |
| Details | |
Span of crimes | 1941–1944[1] |
| Location(s) | Vilnius |
| Target(s) | Lithuanian Jews |
| Killed | At least 75 (suspected thousands) |
Aleksandras Lileikis (10 June 1907 – 26 September 2000) was the chief of the Lithuanian Security Police in Vilnius during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania and a perpetrator of the Holocaust in Lithuania. He signed documents handing at least 75 Jews in his control over to Ypatingasis būrys, a Lithuanian collaborationist death squad, and is suspected of responsibility in the murder of thousands of Lithuanian Jews. After the 1944 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, he fled to Germany as a displaced person. Refused permission to immigrate to the United States because of his Nazi past, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1950s. In 1955, his second application for permission to immigrate was granted and he settled in Norwood, Massachusetts, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1976. Eli Rosenbaum, an investigator for the Office of Special Investigations, uncovered evidence of Lileikis' war crimes; proceedings for his denaturalization were opened in 1994 and concluded with Lileikis being stripped of his United States citizenship. He returned to Lithuania, where he was charged with genocide in February 1998. It was the first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the post-Soviet block of Europe. He died of a heart attack in 2000 before a verdict was reached.