Over fruitcake and schnapps, a man who identified himself as Antanas Kenstavicius hosted doctoral student Salvatore Romano at his home in Hope, B.C., in 1992 and regaled Romano with the highlight story of his Nazi past. Kenstavicius—who served as a police chief in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II—along with accomplices allegedly murdered some 5,000 Jews in six days, including children, in the town of Ignalina in October 1941. “Like sheep, they went,” Kenstavicius told Romano. Kenstavicius believed that Romano was a student at St. Paul’s University in Belize who was gathering information for his doctoral thesis. Little did he know that Romano was the undercover identity of Steven Rambam, a New York-based Jewish private investigator who had taken up the mission of hopscotching the globe to elicit confessions from former Nazis and bring them to justice. Rambam tape-recorded every detail of the two-hour meeting for his supposed thesis. After the …
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