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The initial L’viv pogrom alone had 4,000 victims Ukrainian nationalist groups massacred tens of thousands of Jews both in cooperation with Nazi death squads and on their own volition Stetsko — the man who formally pledged his government’s loyalty to Hitler — moved to the U.S. where he quickly rose into the highest circles of Washington He was lauded as leader of freedom fighters by Ronald Reagan and George H.W Stetsko meeting with then-Vice President Bush Stetsko’s signature on the Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood with a pledge to “work closely with National-Socialist Greater Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.” when an SS Galichina subunit slaughtered 500–1,200 Polish villagers Below left, a march in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), western Ukraine, 1941; below right, a march celebrating the 71st anniversary of SS Galichina’s founding, L’viv, western Ukraine, 2014. L’viv’s 2018 march consisted of hundreds giving coordinated Nazi salutes. See JTA report Note: the entries below were added during the January/April 2022 project update a monument in Berezne and streets in Lutsk Note: The Rokytne street was added to this entry in August 2023 Volya Yakubova and eight other locales – A memorial complex and a separate museum to Andryi Melnyk (1890–1964) the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) split into two factions: OUN-M Melnyk’s faction was every bit as genocidal as Bandera’s – an OUN-M newspaper gleefully celebrated the liquidation of Kyiv’s Jews at Babi Yar (see Ivan Rohach entry below) Germany’s 1941 invasion of Ukraine was welcomed with banners and proclamations such as “Glory to Hitler Melnyk resettled in Luxembourg and was a fixture in Ukrainian diaspora organizations gunned down 33,771 Jews in two days in one of the most horrific massacres of the Holocaust Above left, soldiers of the 115th Schutzmannschaft Battalion, which included Bukovinsky Kuren fighters, march through Kyiv, 1942. See the U.S. section for a memorial to the Bukovinsky Kuren A week later, he ran an article urging readers to be on the lookout for any Jewish survivors hiding in the city. The same week, the Ukrayins’ke Slovo celebrated the improved life in Kyiv praising the abundance of “unoccupied” housing which had suddenly become available (This housing was Jewish homes rendered “unoccupied” by the slaughter of their inhabitants.) Eventually, the Germans grew tired of some of their OUN-M lackeys and executed Rohach. In 2016, the Ukrainian government made the obscene decision to mourn him as a Nazi victim during commemorations of the Babi Yar massacre – the massacre he had so enthusiastically endorsed (above right) Rohach has an additional street in Khust and a plaque and street in Velykyi Berezhny Kyiv and 35 other locales – A plaque to Oleg Olzhych (1907–1944) Olzhych came to Kyiv part of an OUN-M formation designed to aid the nationalist takeover of Ukraine in 1941 He became a key figure in the Ukrayins’ka Natsional’na Rada This OUN-M entity coordinated the formation of Ukrainian auxiliary police that aided the Germans It also published propaganda such as the Ukrayins’ke Slovo (see Ivan Rohach entry above) Perechyn – The town has a street jointly honoring brothers Ivan and Panas Kedyulich. Ivan Kedyulich (1912–1945) was an OUN-M member who came to Kyiv with the same formation as Oleg Olzhych (see entry above). Kedyulich became chief of the city’s local auxiliary police which aided the Nazis with massacres in Babi Yar and elsewhere Police units organized by Kedyulich also provided fighters for the Schutzmannschaft battalions fighters of the 115th Schutzmannschaft in Kyiv Zolota Sloboda – A bust of Yaroslav-Mykhailo Starukh (1910–1947) secretary of the ministry of information and propaganda in the self-declared OUN-B government The village also has a plaque of Starukh on a school building where he’s promoted as an example to children L’viv – Above left, L’viv’s mayor Yuri Polyanskiy (1892–1975) welcomes Governor-General of Poland Hans Frank to the city, August 1, 1941. By this point, at least 6,000 of L’viv’s Jews were butchered in a series of pogroms incited and carried out in large part by Ukrainian nationalists Bodnariv and L’viv – Bodnariv’s monument to Oleksandr Lutskyi (1910–1946), an officer in Nazi Germany’s Nachtigall auxiliary battalion which invaded Ukraine alongside other Third Reich forces in June 1941 the military intelligence division of the Third Reich’s armed forces primarily from the OUN-B branch of the OUN The Ukrainian commander was Roman Shukhevych who is glorified across Ukraine today (see his entry earlier) Nachtigall was reorganized into the 201st Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police battalion which was involved in lethal antisemitic violence and brutal suppression of anti-Nazi resistance in Belarus See the Bukovinsky Kuren entry for more on the Schutzmannschaft Nachtigall marching through L’viv on June 30 right as anti-Jewish pogroms raged throughout the city 1942; Roman Shukhevych is in the front row Ternopil – A plaque and street honoring Omelyan Polovyi (1913–1999). Polovyi followed the familiar path of OUN-B members, serving in Nachtigall then commanding a platoon in the 201st and later becoming a UPA colonel Polovyi and other OUN-B fighters from Nachtigall Schutzmannschaft and local auxiliary police battalions gained hands-on experience carrying out the Holocaust in 1941 and 1942 This murderous experience was put to use in 1943 when they joined the UPA and organized the ethnic cleansing of Poles Volodymyrtsi – A plaque to Petro Gudzovatiy (1912–1946) The plaque is erected on a government building where Gudzovatiy once worked Lypivka (Rohatyn Raion) – A monument to Oleksiy Demsky (1922–1955), another member of Nachtigall and the 201st the 201st Schutmannschaft in training with Roman Shukhevych in the front row Sambir and Storona – Sambir’s bust to Terentiy Pihotskiy (1912–1944) who fought in Nachtigall before becoming a UPA commander He also has a plaque on a school in his home village of Storona Sadzhava – This village honors native son Oleksiy Khymynets (1912–1945) with a monument and street. Khymynets served Germany not just in Nachtigall and the 201st but also in local auxiliary police (see Volodymyr Schygel’skiy entry below for more on role of police) His street uses his nom de guerre “Blagyi” a chilling rare photo of the Holocaust by bullets as it happened; Ukrainian police execute a woman and two children in Miropol Nazavyziv – A memorial plaque honoring Danylo Rudak (1917–1948), who served in Nachtigall and the 201st Chortkiv – A bust of Petro Khamchuk (1919–1947), another member of one of Nazi Germany’s Schutzmannschaft battalions Ivano-Frankivsk and three other locales – On the outside of the city’s Cathedral of the Transformation is a plaque to Vasyl Andrusyak (1915–1946). In 1941, Andrusyak was platoon commander in Nazi Germany’s Roland Battalion Roland was a companion formation to the Nachtigall Battalion (see entries above): just like Nachtigall it was a Ukrainian auxiliary unit in the Abwehr (Third Reich military intelligence) that participated in the Nazi invasion of Ukraine and was later reorganized into the 201st Schutzmannschaft Battalion After serving in Roland, Andrusyak became a UPA officer. He also has a statue street and museum in his hometown of Sniatyn and streets in Hrabivka (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) and Kalush Roland Battalion training in Seibergsdorf Austria Kaminne – A memorial plaque to Petro Melnyk (1910–1953), who served in Roland then the 201st Schutzmannschaft and then became a UPA commander The plaque omits any mention of his service for the Nazis Rai – Dmytro Myron (1911–1942) aka Orlyk was one of the OUN’s main ideologues who authored the “44 Rules of the Life of a Ukrainian Nationalist,” a set of tenets considered foundational to the OUN L’viv and Brovary – Both have streets named for Roman Sushko (1894–1944), OUN leader who commanded the Bergbauernhilfe aka the Ukrainian Military Units of Nationalists or the Sushko Legion The Sushko Legion was another Ukrainian volunteer unit composed mostly of OUN members in Nazi Germany’s armed forces The Sushko Legion entered WWII earlier than the Nachtigall and Roland battalions (see entries above) Nachtigall and Roland were used by the Nazis in the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union; the Sushko Legion was designed to aid the Third Reich’s 1939 invasion of Poland The plaque describing this war criminal as a “legendary commander” is on a building where he attended school Unlike the Schutzmannschaft battalions (see entries above) which were deployed by the Third Reich to various locations local auxiliary police units such as those Schygel’skiy served in were based in specific cities These local collaborators were invaluable to the Nazis: they spoke the local languages knew the people and were intimately familiar with the terrain including where Jews or anti-Nazi resistance fighters could hide Auxiliary police participated in the Holocaust by rounding up Jews forcibly relocating them to be exterminated in death camps or simply massacring them on the spot on the outskirts of towns or in pits dug in local forests The security and guard duties performed by local auxiliary police freed up SS Einsatzgruppen death squads and Schutzmannschaft battalions which were then deployed to perpetuate the Holocaust in other regions Tashan’ – This memorial to “Fighters for Ukrainian Freedom” features a plaque to Petro Samutin (1896–1982), an officer in the Abwehr the Third Reich’s military intelligence division Hrabets then became a colonel in charge of the UPA-South division He also has streets in Ladyzhyn and Vinnytsia Note: the Ladyzhyn street was added to this entry in March 2024 Zhytomyr and two other locales – A street named for Leonid Stupnytskiy (1891–1944) who led the OUN-B’s 1st Ukrainian Regiment “Holodny Yar,” an auxiliary police training battalion in Rivne in 1941 his unit was reformed into a police training regiment under control of the German army See Omelyan Hrabets entry above for more on the Holocaust in Rivne Stupnytskiy also has streets in Rudnya and Ostroh Jews in Storow forced to dig their own graves before being massacred Such haunting scenes were commonplace in WWII Ukraine in which Ukrainian police played a key role (in Hebrew with English subtitles) Editor’s note: Koziar’s monument and street were added to this entry in March 2024 “The German authorities met the passionate desires of Ukrainians of which there are still 150,000 remaining Note: The Derman’ museum and Kyiv and Rokytne streets were added to this entry in August 2023; the Kaniv street was added in March 2024 Kyiv and 10 other locales – A memorial plaque to Stepan Skrypnyk (1898–1993) who became Patriarch Mstyslav around the time Skrypnyk was ordained into the priesthood he was the publisher and manager of the extraordinarily antisemitic paper Volyn (see Ulas Samchuk entry above) On March 29, 1942 Skrypnyk wrote a paean to the “Great European named Adolf Hitler,” who was “sent by providence” to liberate Europe and the world from Jews and Bolsheviks Skrypnyk waxed poetic about Ukraine’s deliverance from “Moscow-Jewish Asiatic bondage,” eagerly anticipating the day “the fanfares of the German army will carry the song of victory across the globe.” Skrypnyk’s Volyn incited genocidal hatred as the Holocaust raged across Ukraine. On November 6, 1941, Germans and Ukrainian collaborators exterminated about 21,000 Jews in Rivne. Three days later, Volyn – a Rivne-based paper – celebrated by running antisemitic cartoons with a caption: “For the Judeo-Bolshevik hydra Below, the masthead from Volyn’s inaugural edition, September 1, 1941. It lists Skrypnyk as publisher and manager, Ulas Samchuk as editor and the printing press’ address as 81 Adolf Hitler Street. See the U.S. section for an honorary street designation for Skrypnyk Romny and Poltava – Both places have streets named for Leonid Parhomovych (1921–1990) aka Poltava. An antisemitic poet, Poltava celebrated the destruction of Romny’s Jews and churned out tracts like his ode to Hitler’s 53rd birthday the boundless sky is blue/It’s no coincidence that on this day was born the Great Führer,” warbled Poltava evoking images of Hitler as a deity of spring and rebirth Afterward, Chav’yak went on to command a UPA battalion he also has a street and plaque in Ivano-Frankivsk Mizernyi’s Third Reich police identification allowing him to carry a handgun and baton and granting him police power Yabluniv (Kosiv Raion) – Yuri Dolishnyak (1916–1948) was an officer in the Nazi-controlled local auxiliary police in the village of Kosmach who later became a UPA commander Yabluniv also gave Dolishnyak a street which uses his nom de guerre “Bilyi” Zarichchya (Nadvirna Raion) – A monument and street to Pavlo Vatsyk (1917–1946) in his home village; Vatsyk served in the Nazi-controlled local auxiliary police in his home region Stopchativ – A monument to Vasyl Skrygunets (1893–1948) who served in the local auxiliary police before becoming a UPA commander His monument uses his nom de guerre “Hamaliya” Jews made up half of Kovel’s pre-war population; the community was virtually exterminated Ukrainian police (with white armbands) preparing to execute Jews in Chernihiv Nyzhniy Bereziv and two other locales – A monument to Mykola Arsenych (1910–1947), who headed the OUN-B’s Sluzhba Bezpeky He also has a bas-relief in Nyzhniy Bereziv and streets in Kolomyia and Novohrad-Volynskiy Editor’s note: The Lutsk street was added to this entry in March 2024 when its fighters burned 500–1,000 Polish villagers alive Kubiyovych’s genocidal activities include chairing L’viv’s Ukrainian Central Committee, a collaborationist organization recognized by the Third Reich. In addition to helping organize and recruit local auxiliary police, the committee warned Ukrainians that anyone helping Jews hide would be severely prosecuted (below left). Thanks to such efforts, L’viv’s thriving Jewish community which had comprised a third of L’viv prewar population less than 800 survived (which makes for a 0.4% survival rate) L’viv and Sokal – Both have streets named for Viktor Kurmanovych (1876–1945) festivities in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) in honor of SS Galichina swastikas and SS Galichina lion and crowns placards Rohatyn – A street and museum for Mykola Ugryn-Bezrishniy (1883–1960), who advocated for SS Galichina’s creation and served in the division under the rank of SS-Obersturmführer Rogatin’ske Slovo article from November 1941 celebrates the annihilation of Ukraine’s Jews: “the cities still have a certain percentage of Jews albeit much diminished…Jews in the villages have been liquidated one way or another….in some villages this took on a festive mood – for example Jews were forced to march with signs saying ‘We are your tormentors’.” The Ugryn-Bezrishniy museum is part of the Rohatyn Museum Complex which includes the nearby Church of the Holy Spirit, a medieval wooden church. In 2013, the church was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site It’s important to note that UNESCO lists only the church and not the museum as part of the heritage site; however the formal link between a UNESCO-designated site and a “museum” glorifying a Waffen-SS officer can be easily used to whitewash Ugryn-Bezrishniy Kyiv and three other locales – A major street in Ukraine’s capital named for Mykhailo Omelyanovych-Pavlenko (1878–1952) Omelyanovych-Pavlenko was a hero of Ukrainian liberation movements of the WWI era he was recruiting soldiers for the Third Reich via the Ukrainian Liberation Army an umbrella organization which funneled Ukrainian volunteers to various Nazi military formations Omelyanovych-Pavlenko was overjoyed to learn of Hitler greenlighting SS Galichina’s creation – “Hail Hitler Hail the Ukrainian Army!” he wrote in a letter celebrating the news (above left) Pervomaisk (Mykolayiv Oblast) and Voznesensk Omelyanovych-Pavlenko (sitting) with SS Galichina officers Ternopil and 23 other locales – The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church played an important role in SS Galichina’s creation Bishop Iosif Slipyi (1892–1984) was the Church’s point man He celebrated mass at SS Galichina’s founding and even furnished the division with priests who served as chaplains Slipyi served as first deputy in the 1941 self-declared OUN government which had pledged allegiance to Hitler (see Yaroslav Stetsko entry for more) According to Slipyi’s own memoirs by 1943 he was well aware of the fate Germany had for the Jews; he still helped provide the Third Reich with SS recruits In 1983, forty years later, Slipyi remained proud of SS Galichina. By then, Slipyi, who had spent years in Soviet labor camps, was in Rome. He commemorated the anniversary of SS Galichina’s founding with praise “Let the memory of Ukrainian Galichian Division live with us forever as a testament to nations that we strive for freedom, statehood and are prepared for the greatest sacrifices for truth, fairness and peace to be in our land,” he proclaimed calling on the faithful to pray for SS men Zalishchyky and Zhovkva; and a square in Stryi Lanchyn – This town’s plaque honoring Vasyl Kosiuk (1921–1984) calls him a veteran of the 1st Division of the UNA (see above) Ivano-Frankivsk – In 2013, Ivano-Frankivsk inaugurated the “Ivano-Frankivsk – A Place of Heroes” program which unveiled memorial plaques throughout the city and environs. These “heroes” include Volodymyr Malkosh (1924–2009), SS-Unterscharführer in SS Galichina. In a 2010 interview about his SS service Malkosh claimed he fought “not for Hitler but against Stalin,” a common whitewashing lie designed to deny fighting in the Waffen-SS Malkosh reminisced about how under Nazi rule with the Jews (whom he called “capitalists” and “merchants”) exterminated L’viv’s higher education schools became composed of 90% ethnic Ukrainians Malkosh didn’t explain the reason for the sudden demographic change: the schools’ Jewish students had been liquidated by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators which left mostly ethnic Ukrainian students Lutsk’s local auxiliary police played a key role in the murder of over 20,000 of the city’s Jews Koval commanded a unit in the UPA which participated in the ethnic cleansing of Polish villages His plaque is in his home village of Mykytyntsi These plaques are in Ivano-Frankivsk, where the Nazis together with Ukrainian collaborators, exterminated over 20,000 Jews; no more than 1,500 of the city’s Jews survived Malyi Khodachkiv – a plaque honoring SS Galichina fighter Teodor Barabash (1923–2014). After the war, Barabash emigrated to Spain where he became a businessman and leader of the country’s Ukrainian diaspora Barabash with Iosif Slipyi who was deeply involved in the creation of SS Galichina (see entry above) Perehyn’ske – A memorial to hometown fighter Volodymyr Deputat (1918–1946) who served in SS Galichina before joining the UPA Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernihiv – Both have streets for Ivan Rembolovich (1897–1950) Note: The Chernihiv street was added to this entry in August 2023 Ternopil – On the façade of a Ternopil school is a plaque celebrating one of its graduates Lukasevich served in SS Galichina before becoming a UPA commander The plaque describes him as a hero of the “national liberation” movement Voinyliv – A plaque to town native Roman Rudiy (1923–2005) The plaque calls him a “civil and political activist and a political prisoner.” Above right Governor of Galizia Otto Wächter (far left) and Governor-General of Poland Hans Frank (third from left) inspect SS Galichina volunteers in L’viv Ivano-Frankivsk and two other locales – Both Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil have streets and memorials dedicated to the SS Galichina division as a whole Ivano-Frankivsk’s memorial (above left) thanks the “heroes” of the Ukrainian Division Galichia (another name for SS Galichina) as well as UPA fighters Pozychanyuk was minister of propaganda in the OUN-B’s 1941 Nazi collaborationist government (see Ivan Klymiv entry above for more). Later, Pozychanyuk became a lieutenant-colonel running propaganda for the UPA. He also has a memorial bas-relief in his home village of Dashiv Berezova Luka and two other locales – In the village of Berezova Luka is a memorial plaque and museum to Petro Dyachenko (1895–1965). Dyachenko, like Pavlo Shandruk (see entry above), was a general in the Ukrainian National Army; for his services Dyachenko was personally awarded the Iron Cross by Third Reich general Wilhelm Schmalz Dyacheko was also attached to SS Galichina also has streets in Nikopol’ and Voznesensk Editor’s note: The Nikopol’ street was added to this entry in March 2024 The UPA murdered thousands of Jews as well Correction: The original caption with the photograph of Yaroslav Stetsko meeting with then-U.S Lev Golinkin is a regular contributor to the Forward whose work has also appeared in The New York Times I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward American Jews need independent news they can trust At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism you rely on See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association All news and diagrams placed on this Web site is made for internal use Its reproduction or distribution in any form are welcome in case of placing a direct hyperlink to a source Reproduction or distribution of information which contains Interfax-Ukraine as a source is prohibited without the written permission from the Interfax-Ukraine news agency Photoes placed on this site are taken from open sources only; rightholder are welcome to make demands to info@open4business.com.ua in this case we are ready to put your copyright to a photo or replace it.