Former Nazi charged by US immigration courts
September 01 2009 by Rebekah Nahai
John Kalymon expelled by US immigration
A man involved in Nazi-sponsored persecutions of Jews in Ukraine during World War II is set to be expelled from the US.
The US Justice Department is taking steps to secure the expulsion of John Kalymon, 88, a former member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in Lviv, Ukraine.
Kalymon was charged last week in US immigration courts for “violent acts of persecution” during the period between May 1942 and March 1944, when he “personally shot Jews… killing at least one”. He is also convicted of participation in “operations in which Jews were forcibly deported to be murdered in gas chambers and to serve as slave labourers.”
Kalymon moved to the US from Germany in 1949, hiding his Nazi affiliations from immigration officials and changing his first name from Iwan to John.
His US citizenship was revoked in March 2007 by US immigration courts following confirmation of the war crimes allegations against him.
Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, said it was with the support of officers like John Kalymon that the Nazis were able to murder about 100,000 men, women and children in occupied Lviv.
“Participants in such crimes have forfeited any right to enjoy the precious privilege of US citizenship or to continue residing in the United States,” Rosenbaum said.
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