American court orders former Ukrainian Nazi policeman out of US
WASHINGTON. February 3. KAZINFORM An immigration judge in Detroit has ordered John (Ivan) Kalymon of Troy, Michigan, removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Ukraine, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday, February 2; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
The removal order was issued by U.S. Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker. Kalymon, 89, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955. In 2004, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking revocation of Kalymon's U.S. citizenship. Following trial, a federal judge granted that request in 2007, finding that Kalymon had participated in the rounding up and shooting of Jews. The evidence included an August 14, 1942, report handwritten by Kalymon in which he informed his UAP superiors that he had personally killed one Jew and had wounded another "during the Jewish operation" that day, the department said.
In a 28-page decision dated January 31, 2011, Judge Hacker ordered Kalymon deported to Germany, Ukraine, Poland or any other country that will admit him. Judge Hacker found, as had the district court, that during Kalymon's voluntary 1941-1944 service in the UAP, German authorities enacted a series of persecutory anti-Jewish decrees that were enforced in Lvov by UAP personnel. German and UAP forces rounded up Jews, beating and shooting those who showed any sign of resistance, and sent most of them to be murdered in the gas chambers at the Belzec extermination centre. Some were shot or sent to be worked to death in forced labour camps.