The US Department of Justice has announced that a federal court has revoked the US citizenship of Orest Galan, a former Florida resident for his participation in a Ukrainian police unit that murdered more than 100,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland . Galan joined the unit in January 1943 and served until May 1944.

According to the Justice Department Galan joined the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in the city of L’viv and participated in rounding up Jews, terrorized them, oversaw their forced labor, killed those attempting to escape and delivered others to Nazi extermination camps.

Galan has admitted service in the UAP and has consented to the order revoking his citizenship. He will return to Ukraine .

Assistant Attorney General Fisher stated, “This case reflects the Justice Department’s dedication to the principle that those who helped the Nazi regime carry out its infamous designs do not deserve the privilege of American citizenship or residence.”

Galan entered the US in 1950 and became a US citizen twenty years later. He is one of 104 individuals who have assisted in Nazi persecution who have been successfully pursued by the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. In addition, more than 175 individuals who sought to enter the United States in recent years have been blocked from doing so as a result of OSI’s “Watchlist” program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.