Nachman Dushanski

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Nachman Dushanski (Lithuanian: Nachmanas Dušanskis, Russian: Нахман Ноахович Душанский, Hebrew: נחמן דושנסקי; December 29, 1919 – February 20, 2008) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish officer of Soviet security agencies. His parents and three of his four siblings were killed in The Holocaust. For over thirty years, he was involved in the suppression of the anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisans. In Russia, he was regarded as a war hero and was awarded the Medal for Courage, Order of the Patriotic War, and Order of Lenin, while many Lithuanians perceived him as a war criminal for the killing and torture of Viktoras Vitkauskas, Juozas Lukša, and other partisans. In 1989, Dushanski immigrated to Israel. After Lithuania declared independence in 1990, Lithuanian prosecutors began a case for 9 criminal activities, but Israel refused to extradite him on the grounds that the case was motivated by anti-Semitism. Dushanski died a free man in 2008.