Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., Aug. 01, 2007
(1)
Denaturalization and Deportation:
(a)
“The Ten-Year War” by Olya Odynsky: in the 27Jun2007 issue of the Ukrainian News
describes the long
battle fought by Wasyl Odynsky and his family against spurious war
crimes
charges and the threat of denaturalization and deportation of Mr.
Odynsky. This
article along with my commentary is archived at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrnews/ukrnews.html
(b)
Helmut Oberlander and Jacob Fast: In early July 2007, the Kitchener-Waterloo
Record carried three
articles on the unfairness of politicians in the federal cabinet
revoking the
citizenship of Helmut Oberlander for the second time. Andrew Telegdi,
for many
years the chairman of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and
Immigration,
provides a detailed review of the case in his article titled
“Conservatives
wrong to press Oberlander issue”.
Seventeen-year-old Stephanie van Pelt wonders “For how
long must a
17-year-old be held accountable?” -- noting that Ukrainian-born
German-speaking
Helmut Oberlander was of that age when he was dragooned by the Germans
to act
as an interpreter. Lastly, Eric Vernon of the Canadian Jewish Congress
in his
article titled “Finding misrepresented” argues that the ruling of
Justice
Robert Decary “was not such a blanket indictment of the revocation
process” as
suggested by Mr. Telegdi. These articles are available via the link to
the
Furman Files
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/furman/furman.html
Once
again I ask my readers to PLEASE sign
the petition calling on the federal government to restore the
citizenship of
Helmut Oberlander at
http://www.petitiononline.com/ober2007/petition.html
(Very
few Ukrainians responded to this
request in my last two GRC Reports.)
(2)
Holodomor:
Reporter Andy Smart of the Nottingham online news interviews
82-year-old Dr Margaret Siriol Colley about the life and death of
Gareth Jones,
whose reports on the 1932-33 Holodomor in Ukraine were disbelieved and
suppressed for many years. Titled “Was my amazing uncle killed on
orders of
Stalin?”, this article is archived in the Holodomor link at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
(3)
WWI Internment of Ukrainians: An editorial by Marco Levytsky in the
25Jul2007 issue of the
Ukrainian News titled “Oda, Kenney have unique opportunity for an
honourable
settlement” outlines the position of the Ukrainian community in pending
negotiations with these politicians “on the matter of redress for the
Ukrainian
Canadian internment of 1914-1920”, which presumably occurred on
30Jul2007.
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrnews/ukrnews.html
(4)
Errors of Omission:
A letter by Myroslaw Prytulak to the Toronto Sun commenting on
distortions in their 06Jun2007 article titled “A Holocaust ‘killing
field’” has
been reproduced in the 24Jul2007 issue of e-Poshta and is archived
amongst the
Furman Files at the link indicated above:
[Your
paper's article A HOLOCAUST 'KILLING
FIELD' (Toronto SUN, June 06, 2007) leaves one with the impression
that, even
though as Israel's Holocaust expert Efraim Zuroff claims "Ukraine was
enormous killing field ... ", apparently, no Ukrainians were ever
killed
in Ukraine during World War Two!
Please
allow me to point out to you ... and
all the 'experts' quoted by your paper that, in addition to 'providing'
the
Nazis with the enormous 'killing field', Ukraine also lost in this war
more of
her beloved sons and daughters than any other country in the entire
world --
equaling the combined losses of Germany, France, UK, USA, Holland and
Canada.
As a
matter of fact, according to the
statistics of the Institute of History of the Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences
published in 1984, in World War Two Ukraine lost 8.0 million of her
people: 2.5
million military and 5.5 million civilians. Additional 2.5 million
Ukrainians
were forced to work in Germany as slave-labourers and 10 million of
them were
left homeless in their own country.
Since
monster Hitler regarded all
Ukrainians as UNTERMENSCHEN (i.e. subhumans), is the SUN by any chance
also
perceiving the EIGHT MILLION departed heroic Ukrainian warriors as
subhumans,
thus perhaps making them unworthy of your paper's attention?]
Kudos
to both Mr. Prytulak and e-Poshta for
archiving this “error of omission” for posterity.
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2007-08-01