Poland’s Education Minister proposes to extradite former SS man from Canada
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Polish Minister of Education and Science Przemyslaw Czarnek proposed considering the possibility of extraditing from Canada Jaroslaw Hunka, a member of the SS Galicia division, who was invited to the country’s parliament on September 22. Charnek reported this on the social network X (formerly Twitter)
“In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament related to the honoring of a member of the criminal Nazi formation SS “Galicia” in the presence of President Zelensky, I took measures to [организации] possible extradition of this person to Poland,” he wrote.
To this post, Czarnek also attached a photo of a letter to the director of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Karol Nawrocki. In this appeal, Czarnek proposes to check whether Hunka is wanted “for crimes against the Polish people and Poles of Jewish origin.” He explained that signs of such crimes could become grounds for extradition to Poland.
On September 22, 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka (Hunko) was present at a meeting of the Canadian Parliament with the participation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, he was presented as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division. Later, Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota, who invited Gunko, apologized “to every Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran.” The Russian Embassy in Ottawa announced that it would send a note to the Canadian Foreign Ministry because of the honoring of the veteran of the SS Galicia division.
The Kremlin considered the incident outrageous. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov named “sloppy” is such an attitude towards memory, noting that many Western countries have “raised a younger generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the Second World War.”
After the incident, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Arkadiusz Mularczyk demanded Rota’s resignation. He recalled that Waffen-SS soldiers were representatives of “the most criminal German units” and committed mass brutal murders, primarily of Poles and Jews. They are also known for crimes against Belarusians and Slovaks.
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