[DPA/Ha'aretz] John Ivan Kalymon, 87, who became a U.S. citizen in 1955, lost his appeal to keep his U.S. citizenship after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled he had collaborated with Nazis during Germany's occupation of Ukraine and helped liquidate a Jewish ghetto in Poland, U.S. officials said last Friday. As a member of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP), Kalymon had helped round up Jews, imprison them in a ghetto, terrorize them and supervise their forced labor, kill those trying to escape and lead survivors to extermination and forced labor camps, including Belzec in Poland. A UAP document signed by Kalymon "proved that in 1942 he personally killed and wounded Jews in Lviv by shooting them," a statement from the Justice Department said. "The Nazis and their collaborators killed more than 100,000 of Lviv's Jews - men, women and children whose only 'crime' was their religion," said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Office of Special Investigations that continues to probe Nazi-era crimes.
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