By JTA
A United States court has upheld a decision to strip the alleged Nazi collaborator Ivan Kalymon, 91, who lives in Michigan, of his US citizenship. The 6th Circuit Appeals Court in Cincinnati, Ohio, confirmed the deportation order against Kalymon who is alleged to have rounded up and shot dead Jews as a member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during World War II. The US Justice Department's Board of Immigration Appeals in September 2011 upheld a Detroit immigration judge's decision that Kalymon should be removed from the United States due to his participation in lethal acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution of Jews.
Kalymon was ordered deported to Germany, Ukraine, Poland or any other country that will admit him. Kalymon served voluntarily as an armed member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in German-occupied Lvov, Ukraine. He is accused of shooting and killing Jews during his service, which he hid on his US citizenship application.
In 2004, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in a Detroit District Court seeking to revoke his US citizenship, which he acquired in 1955 after emigrating from Germany six years earlier. A federal judge granted the request in 2007, finding that Kalymon had participated in the roundup and shooting of Jews during his time in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police from 1941 to 1944.
The evidence against Kalymon included a seized report by him from August 1942 in which he informed his UAP superiors that he had personally shot to death one Jew and wounded another “during the Jewish operation” that day, according to the Justice Department. Other evidence included reports from Kalymon’s commander that the Ukrainian had fired his weapon during forcible roundups of Jews in which they were killed and wounded.
