US seeks to oust 88-year-old over Nazi-era charge

John Kalymon, a former naturalized American citizen accused of killing Jews during World War II, faces deportation after Justice Department filed court papers seeking to throw him out of country

An 88-year-old former naturalized American citizen accused of helping the Nazis and killing Jews during World War II faces deportation after the Justice Department filed court papers seeking to throw him out of the country.

US officials have not said to which country they want to send John Kalymon, but Poland is investigating the role of police in the deaths of Jews in neighboring Ukraine, Kalymon's homeland.

US authorities say Kalymon, once known as Iwan Kalymon, shot Jews while serving in the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Force in what is now the city of Lviv, which until 1939 was part of Poland.

Crying on the front porch of his home in Troy, Michigan, Kalymon told The Associated Press on Monday that he did not shoot anyone during World War II.

"I live in this country 60 years and four months. I love this country because it's my country. I'm going to die here. They want to remove me, an old man. I never was arrested; pay my taxes. I don't know anyone as honest as me," he said.

The retired auto engineer has been under investigation for years and has denied the charges repeatedly.

Kalymon's lawyer, Elias Xenos, has argued Kalymon guarded coal from looters. The lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment Monday on the government's decision to seek deportation.

Kalymon lives in Troy, Michigan, and came to the United States in 1949. He said he lied about his police work because he feared being sent to the Soviet Union. He became a naturalized citizen in 1955 and went on to work at Chrysler.

'Iv Kalymun'

The US government became aware of Kalymon after the Soviet Union evaporated in 1991. World War II-era archives that had been inaccessible revealed people who may have concealed their Axis allegiance when they entered the United States decades ago.

In 2007, after a civil trial, a federal judge in Detroit, Michigan, stripped Kalymon of his citizenship, saying his two years in the Ukrainian police resulted in the persecution of civilians.

The government produced a handwritten document in which "Iv Kalymun" reported firing four shots, killing one Jew and injuring another. Kalymon admits he spelled his last name both ways when he was a young man but says he did not go by "Kalymun" when he was a Ukrainian officer. He denied shooting Jews and claimed the record was a forgery.

Authorities say the actions were part of an operation to remove 40,000 Jews from the Lviv Ghetto in August 1942.

"With the active assistance of collaborators like John Kalymon, the Nazis annihilated some 100,000 innocent Jewish men, women and children in Lviv," said Eli Rosenbaum, who leads the Justice Department's effort to find and deport former Nazis and their helpers. "Participants in such crimes have forfeited any right to enjoy the precious privilege of US citizenship or to continue residing in the United States."

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