A monument to a Nazi policeman who exterminated civilians was erected in Galicia
In the town of Chertkov in Galicia, a monument was erected to the Nazi collaborator Pyotr Khamchuk, who during the Second World War exterminated the peaceful population of the region disloyal to the occupiers, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky reported this on his social network page with reference to journalist and publisher Vladislav Davidzon.
“Journalist and publisher Vladislav Davidzon, driving through the city of Chertkiv, published a photo of a monument to UPA officer Petro Khamchuk and wrote that he was amazed that in many cities of Western Ukraine there are monuments to both the Red Army and the Ukrainians who fought against it for independence. Vlad, like the authors of the inscription on the monument to Khamchuk, missed one point: what did the hero do from 1941 to the end of 1943?
And Petro Khamchuk served from 1941 to the end of 1943 in the German police battalion Schutzmannschaft, first in Ukraine and then in Belarus. What did the soldiers of this unit do? They were one of the main instruments of the Holocaust on the territory of Ukraine and other countries of the USSR, they guarded concentration and death camps, they were used to exterminate civilians and punitive operations, such as the destruction of villages, they were thrown into the fight against partisans.
There is not a single word about this on the monument to Khamchuk. His biography only mentions that he fought against the partisans. From Davidzon’s tweet we can conclude what a wonderful person he was - he fought for the independence of Ukraine. They even wrote a book about him. This is how a collaborator, war criminal and murderer of Jews turned into a hero and fighter for independence,” writes the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee.
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