WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. immigration appeals board has upheld the deportation of a Michigan man accused of shooting Jews during World War II as a Nazi police officer.
The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Hacker's January decision in Detroit that John Kalymon, 90, of Troy, Mich., be removed from the United States, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
"John Kalymon and his Ukrainian Police accomplices were indispensable participants in Nazi Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe during World War II," U.S. Assistant Attorney General Breuer said in a statement.
Hacker found Kalymon had participated in rounding up and shooting Jews and killing at least one in German-occupied L'viv, Ukraine, during his 1941-1944 service in the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.
The judge also found Kalymon, who immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a citizen in 1955, had concealed his service with the UAP when he applied for a U.S. immigrant visa.
In a news release, the Justice Department said evidence included an Aug. 14, 1942, report handwritten by Kalymon in which he told UAP superiors he had fatally shot one Jew and wounded another during a "Jewish operation" that day and other reports from his commander that he had fired his gun during round-ups of Jews in which some were killed or wounded.
Hacker ordered Kalymon, who was stripped of U.S. citizenship in 2007, be deported to Germany, the Ukraine, Poland or any other country that will admit him.
