An accused Nazi war criminal who fled the United States was issued an Estonian passport. Michael Gorshkow, 79, obtained an Estonian passport after he left the United States last month ahead of a federal court decision to revoke his citizenship. The Justice Departmentīs Office of Special Investigations accused Gorshkow of helping to kill about 3,000 people in the Slutsk ghetto while serving as an interpreter and interrogator for the Gestapo. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is pressuring Estonian prosecutors to charge Gorshkow, though his alleged crimes were committed in Belarus.

Source: JTA, August 30, 2002

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