Nachman Dushanski (Lithuanian: Nachmanas Dušanskis, Russian: Нахман Ноахович Душанский, Hebrew: נחמן דושנסקי; December 29, 1919 – February 20, 2008) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish officer of Soviet security agencies.
[1] Between spring 1942 and summer 1943, he attended intensive NKVD training courses on identification of spies, recruitment, interrogation, and other areas in preparation for work behind the German lines.
[1] After the Minsk Offensive, Dushanski returned to Lithuania where he was assigned to the duties of the suppression of the Lithuanian partisans, the armed anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters.
[5] According to Dushanski, he was also involved in the apprehension of former Nazi collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators, and members of the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions (Schutzmannschaft).
[6] However, Israel refused to cooperate and did not respond to Lithuanian requests to question Dushanski as a witness or to extradite him on the grounds that the case stemmed from anti-Semitism.
[7] Israel argued that there were at least 20 KGB and NKVD officers who were involved in similar reprisal actions and who lived in Lithuania, but were not prosecuted.
Lithuania replied that the list contained names of people who had already died or who were born in post-war years and were too young to participate in the anti-partisan operations.