Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies announced Saturday a monument honouring Waffen S.S. soldiers had been removed from a private cemetery in Oakville, Ont.
, was dedicated to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the S.S., a Nazi military unit comprised of predominantly Ukrainian soldiers during World War II.
It was erected in 1988 to honour the members of the First Ukrainian Division. Veterans, as well as family members, are buried in the cemetery.“FSWC previously stated that such monuments ‘distort the Holocaust while glorifying the memory of individuals who participated in crimes against humanity,’ ” the statement read.A petition through change.org, which garnered 1,000 signatures, was launched in 2020 to have the marker removed after it was defaced.
At that time, Oakville Mayor Rob Burton responded the campaign saying he found the monument “repugnant,” but that municipalities were unable to intervene in regulating the contents of private cemeteries.According to the statement released Saturday by FSWC, Oakville-based Rabbi Stephen Wise said members of the local Ukrainian community responsible for the memorial had reached the decision to remove it recently.
“The monument’s removal comes nearly six months after Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran who served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, received a standing ovation in the Canadian House of Commons, provoking international outrage and renewed calls for monuments dedicated to Nazi collaborators in Canada to be removed,” Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in the statement.
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