Menu JTA Search  Beekeeper Could Be Deported for Collaborating
with the Nazis  A 77-year-old retired butcher from Montreal
faces deportation as a suspected Nazi collaborator after a
federal judge ruled that he had obtained Canadian citizenship
under false pretenses.  Following the ruling, it is up to the
Canadian Cabinet to approve revoking the citizenship of Vladimir
Katriuk, a former member of a Ukrainian battalion that
collaborated with a Nazi SS unit responsible for the deaths of
thousands of Jews and others in Belarus and Ukraine between 1942
and 1944.  Katriuk, who now raises bees in Quebec, denies any
involvement in atrocities, claiming that he entered Canada under
an alias because he was a deserter from the French Foreign
Legion.  The Canadian Jewish Congress, along with the Justice
Department’s war crimes unit, applauded the ruling, which,
barring an unforeseen setback, will lead to Katriuk’s
deportation.  Irving Abella, chair of the CJC’s war crimes unit,
hailed the decision as a “giant step forward