The Justice Department has moved to revoke the citizenship of Michael Popczuk, a native of the Ukraine who lives in Lynn, Mass., on grounds that he obtained it “because of misrepresentations” about his collaboration with the Nazis during World War II.
A complaint was filed against Popczuk in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday alleging that he had served as a policeman in the Antoniny district in the Ukraine during the German occupation and that, in association with the Nazis, he participated in the murder and persecution of Jewish civilians “in or near the villages of Kilchiny and Manivtsy. ” Popczuk, 64, entered the U.S. in 1954 and was naturalized in 1961.
The Justice Department contended in its complaint that Popczuk “lacked the statutory requirements of good moral character to obtain U.S. citizenship because of his alleged participation in acts of persecution and murder and because of misrepresentations to U.S. authorities.”
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