'This cannot remain,' the American Jewish Committee said in a statement. The monument to an SS unit composed of Ukrainian soldiers had previously received little publicity.
Records from a Ukrainian veterans association, apparently now defunct, show that a group of Ukrainian veterans initially sought to create the burial grove, which contains about 50 gravestones for SS Galizien veterans and their spouses.
She instead sent a document for “historical context” which said the actions and legacy of SS Galizien “continue to be debated by historians.” That explanation is not uncommon among some Ukrainians living in North America. Thousands of SS Galizien veterans are buried across the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, some near similar memorials. Just a few blocks away from St. Mary’s cemetery, the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center has a memorial wall bearing the unit’s insignia, and framed photos of prominent members.
“The claim that Waffen-SS soldiers fought for ‘freedom’ of Ukraine is a revisionist claim, as these people stood under the command of Heinrich Himmler and took a personal oath to Adolf Hitler,” said Per Anders Rudling, a professor at Lund University in Sweden. “I think that perhaps it should be up to the unit’s admirers to clarify their concept of freedom,” he added.
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