For Immediate Release
Toronto, October 31, 1996 ... B'nai Brith Canada is pleased that the Federal government, in beginning proceedings against two additional suspected Nazi war criminals, continues to fulfil its commitment to seek the denaturalization and deportation of alleged Nazi war criminals residing in Canada. The Federal government filed documents against Mr. Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary and Mr. Vladimir Katriuk. Csizsik-Csatary, who is a Canadian citizen, is alleged to be a former member of the Royal Hungarian Police and responsible for the internment and deportation to concentration camps of segments of the Hungarian Jewish population. The government maintains that Csizsik-Csatary did not reveal these activities when applying for Canadian citizenship and therefore obtained citizenship by false representation or fraud or by knowing concealment of circumstances. He is 81 years old and a resident of Toronto. His trial will likely be held in Toronto.
Vladimir Katriuk entered Canada in 1951 under the name Nicholas Schpirka. He did not at that time reveal that he had been a section leader in Schuma 118 Police Battalion in Byelorussia and that between the years 1942 and 1944 he participated with his unit in actions against partisans and atrocities against civilians. Katriuk is 75 years of age and lives in Montreal.
David Matas, Senior Legal Counsel for B'nai Brith Canada issued the following statement: “B'nai Brith Canada welcomes these prosecutions, even at this late date, because for too long Canada has been a haven for mass murderers.”
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