12 Facts About Nachman Dushanski

Nachman Dushanski was a Lithuanian-born Jewish officer of Soviet security agencies.

Nachman Dushanski was born in to a large Jewish family with a long military background.

Nachman Dushanski was released when Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in June 1940 and was given a job as an assistant security officer at the NKVD office in Telsiai.

Nachman Dushanski was stationed in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow and was put on firewood duty.

Nachman Dushanski became a junior lieutenant of the KGB in January 1943, captain by 1945, and lieutenant colonel in 1956.

Nachman Dushanski was deployed in the Smolensk area to capture German officers and other collaborators.

Nachman Dushanski was involved in the liquidation of the commands of the Tauras, Dainava, and Prisikelimas districts, the killing of Juozas Vitkus and Juozas Luksa, and arrest and torture of Adolfas Ramanauskas.

In 1964, Nachman Dushanski graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University.

Nachman Dushanski retired from the Soviet security agencies in 1971 and worked as a jurist at a chemical factory and engineer at a computing directorate.

Nachman Dushanski immigrated to Israel in 1989, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Nachman Dushanski was investigated on nine counts of repressions against the Lithuanian partisans.

Therefore, Israel concluded that Nachman Dushanski was being singled out because he was Jewish.