<p>John (Ivan) Kalymon of Michigan served as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Ukraine.<br /><br />The removal orders were issued by US Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker in Detroit, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A Breuer of the Criminal Division, the Department of Justice said yesterday.<br /><br />Kalymon, 89, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a US citizen in 1955.<br /><br />In 2004, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking revocation of Kalymon's US citizenship.<br /><br />Following trial, a federal judge granted that request in 2007, finding that Kalymon had participated in the rounding up and shooting of Jews.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Judge Hacker's decision relied on surviving UAP documents that established that on repeated occasions over two years, Kalymon took part in round-ups and forced transports of Jews.<br /><br />The judge further found that Kalymon concealed his UAP service when applying for his immigrant visa, the department said.</p>
<p>John (Ivan) Kalymon of Michigan served as an armed member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Ukraine.<br /><br />The removal orders were issued by US Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker in Detroit, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A Breuer of the Criminal Division, the Department of Justice said yesterday.<br /><br />Kalymon, 89, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a US citizen in 1955.<br /><br />In 2004, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking revocation of Kalymon's US citizenship.<br /><br />Following trial, a federal judge granted that request in 2007, finding that Kalymon had participated in the rounding up and shooting of Jews.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Judge Hacker's decision relied on surviving UAP documents that established that on repeated occasions over two years, Kalymon took part in round-ups and forced transports of Jews.<br /><br />The judge further found that Kalymon concealed his UAP service when applying for his immigrant visa, the department said.</p>