Boļeslavs Maikovskis

Emigration to the United States Granted a visa on November 14, 1951, Maikovskis emigrated to the U.S., and arrived on December 22, 1951, initially living in Brooklyn before purchasing a house with his wife in Mineola, New York. He and his wife lived there for 36 years, and Maikovskis was active in Latvian organizations, including serving of the board of the American Latvian Association, as the representative of the Daugavas Vanagi. He worked as a carpenter until his retirement.

His crimes were detailed in a November 1976 episode of 60 Minutes, and, in 1977, Maikovskis was featured in Howard Blum's book Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America. During the 1970s and 1980s, Maikovskis became the target of anti-Nazi vigilantes. In August 1978, he was shot in the right knee at his home. In 1979, a man stabbed a person whom he mistook for Maikovskis. In September 1981, Maikovskis's home was bombed by the Jewish Defense League.

Flee to Germany After his deportation to the Soviet Union became a certainty, Maikovskis fled from the U.S. in 1987. In October 1988, Maikovskis was arrested as a suspected war criminal. He was held in a prison hospital until the fall of 1992. Maikovskis was simultaneously prosecuted in the German judicial system, but the case was dropped on health grounds in 1994. He died in Münster in 1996, aged 92, from a heart attack.