Failure to return Waffen SS veteran donations bemuses University of Alberta faculty
Yaroslav Hunka, right, waits for the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Sept. 22, 2023.The University of Alberta is facing criticism, including from its own academics, for failing to act on more than $1-million in donations and endowments from veterans and people with links to a Ukrainian Waffen SS unit that fought for the Nazi regime in the Second World War.
Prof. Ball, who teaches memory studies, which examines how people recall historical events, said she felt “humiliated” to be teaching at a university that had appointed Peter Savryn, a former member of the Waffen SS Galicia Division, as chancellor, and had taken large donations from veterans of the division.
They include a generous endowment in the name of Volodymyr Kubijovych, who played a key role in the Ukrainian SS unit’s establishment in 1943. The Volodymyr and Daria Kubijovych Memorial Endowment Fund was established in 1986 and, according to a link to a website the university has now taken down, is worth $437,757.
He said Mr. Kubijovych was well-connected in Nazi circles, including attending a party to celebrate Hitler’s birthday at Wawel Castle, the residence of Mr. Frank, who was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials and hanged in October, 1946. “The slowness with which the university is progressing with a review of the endowments, and its silence about the direction of the CIUS, tells me that they have put the matter on the back burner,” she said.
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