Jan. 20, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
Jakiw Palij, the ex-Nazi
guard who lived in Jackson
Heights until he was deported
at President Trump’s order last
year, died in Germany on Jan.
10, according to reports.
The BBC reports that the 95-
year-old former Nazi collaborator
died in a home for the elderly
in the town of Ahlen. The U.S
Ambassador to Germany Richard
Grenell reported his passing
on Twitter.
For more than a decade after
learning that he worked
for the Nazis during the Holocaust,
Queens residents had
sought Palij’s expulsion from
the United States.
The former Nazi guard had
been living in an apartment on
89th Street for years and was
initially stripped of his naturalized
citizenship in 2003. As
recently as 2017, hundreds gathered
outside Palij’s home demanding
his deportation.
Palij was born in a part
of Poland that is now part of
Ukraine and in the spring of
1943, trained at the SS Training
Camp in Trawniki, in Nazioccupied
Poland.
On Nov. 3, 1943, 6,000 Jewish
men, women and children that
were incarcerated at Trawniki
were shot to death as part of one of
the largest massacres of the Holocaust.
Palij played in instrumental
role in preventing the escape
of the prisoners and in “Operation
Reinhard,” the Third Reich’s plan
to murder Jews in Poland.
Palij emigrated to the United
States in 1949 and was granted
naturalized citizenship in 1957.
But he concealed his involvement
as a Nazi by telling U.S im-
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BY MARK HALLUM
A Maspeth woman calling on
Target to take over a space in
a Middle Village shopping center
left vacant by both Kmart
and Toys “R” Us has gathered a
grand total of 177 signatures on a
change.org petition.
Charlene Stubbs, in her petition
to Target CEO Brian Cornell, believes
that a big box store would fit
well at the Metropolitan Avenue location.
Rentar Development, which
owns the site, recently had its application
to build two new truck
loading bays in order to entice new
tenants shot down at a Jan. 9 Community
Board 5 meeting.
“We do not have a Target in our
community board, which consists of
Maspeth Middle Village Ridgewood
and Glendale. We have to go out of
the neighborhood to shop at one. We
lost KMart there in October, so now
we have to go out of our area to buy
clothes books and toys, which most
Targets I have been to have a wide
selection,” Stubbs wrote. “There
are so many houses within walking
distance of this store. I can not see a
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Bayside businesswoman Mary Mindel died
Jan. 13 in her Great Neck home. She was 90
years old.
In 1969, Mindel, a Holocaust survivor,
opened Bayside’s Adria Motor Inn, a busi-
Kohl’s announced that
they will be shutting down
four of its stores nationwide,
including its location
in Rego Park.
Reports say that in addition
to the Rego Park store
— located at the Rego Center
at 61-35 Junction Blvd.
— Kohl’s will be closing
down its locations in Valley
Stream, N.Y.; Lenexa, Kan.;
and Houma, La.
The announcement
came one year after Sears
announced that it would
be closing down its location
at the Rego Center.
Kohl’s at Rego Center first
opened in 2010.
A representative of Kohl’s
stated that they will be closing
the stores due to real
estate and operational costs.
Employees at these stores
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Petition for
Middle Village
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