War crimes including the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division [textual record (some microform)]

Identifier
770542
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Series
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

Series consists of subject files which are arranged alphabetically regarding Sol Littman's investigative research into the history surrounding the entry of World War Two war criminals and Nazi collaborators and supporters into Canada and in particular members of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Volunteer GrenadierDivision commonly known as the Galician or Halychyna Division. Also included are microfilms from the United States National Archives Records Administration.

These include: his work with Jewish organizations including the B'nai Brith Canada League for Human Rights, Canadian Jewish Congress, Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association, Network Canada, N-3 Fighters Against Racial Hatred and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; his involvement with government agencies and bodies including the Deschênes Commission, the Department of Justice Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, the RCMP and the Solicitor General; his research at the Public Archives of Canada, the Public Records Office and National Archives and Records Administration regarding the entry of war criminals to Canada, Britain and the United States and also with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations Criminal Division and the United Nations War Crimes Commission Archives; his access to information requests for information about alleged and convicted war criminals and Nazi collaborators living in Canada including Imre Finta, Josef Kirschbaum, Dmytro Kupiak, Jacob Luitjens, Haralds Puntulis and Helmut Rauca as well those who tried to gain entry including Josef Mengele; his subject files on war crimes committed by auxiliary police units in many European countries including Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine;

his extensive collection of materials about the Divisia and its wartime activities including information about its command structure and organization, membership rolls, newspapers, and its divisional diary, the 31st SD Punitive Detachment and Ukrainian Police Battalion 102 and their members, atrocities committed in Polish and Slovak villages; his files on relations between the Jewish and Ukrainian communities over the war crimes investigations including the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Ukrainian Civil Liberties Association and the "Ukrainian Weekly" as well as research on the Ukrainian Famine. Microfilms consists of records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police which is on reel M-8842; Group XV, ordner 439: (Der ress and SS-O' Gruf Berger, 1944) miscellaneous non-biographical material (Schumacher material) which is on reel M-8843; Records of German Field Commands Panzer Armies, 1944 found on reels M-8844 to M-8846.

Sources

  • Private

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