Timeline: Life and death of ex-Nazi guard deported from US

Major events in the life of Jakiw Palij, the 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who was deported to Germany last August after living quietly in the U.S. for decades. Local media reported he died on Wednesday at a care home in Ahlen.___

EARLY LIFE AND NAZI SERVICE

—Aug. 16, 1923: Born in Piadyki, Poland, now P'yadyky, Ukraine.

—September 1939: Soviet Union occupies Piadyki shortly after start of World War II.

—June 1941: Nazi Germany seizes Piadyki after invading Soviet Union.

—Early 1943: Nineteen-year-old Palij is recruited into Nazi service.

—February 1943: Reports to Trawniki training camp and is assigned to guard an adjacent labor camp where thousands of Jews are held.