Jasep Saschytsch

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Jasep Saschytsch ( Belarusian Язэп Сажыч ; born September 5, 1917 in Haradchechna , Nawahrudak district ; † November 19, 2007 in Detroit , USA ) was a Belarusian politician and officer.

Life

Saschytsch attended the school in Nawahrudak and became a non-commissioned officer after attending the Polish officers' school. From 1939 to 1941 he studied economics in Lviv . In 1941 he helped set up Belarusian collaborationist units in the west of the country. In 1942 and 1943, Sashytsch served as a lieutenant in a regiment of a railway protection battalion. From 1943 to 1944 he served in the same battalion as a propaganda officer. In March 1944 Saschytsch became an officer in the White Ruthenian Home Guard . In June 1944 he withdrew to Germany, where he continued his Belarusian nationalist activities. In the last months of the war, Saschytsch served as a commandant in an officers' school of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) in Bavaria. From 1945 to 1950 Saschytsch studied medicine in Germany and received his doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Saschytsch emigrated to the United States in 1950 , where he worked as a doctor for 30 years. For 20 years he headed the Association of Belarusian Veterans , an organization of Nazi collaborators founded in 1947 by Franzischak Kuschal . Saschytsch was also President of the Rada BNR , the government-in-exile of the Belarusian People's Republic from 1982 to 1997 .

He left a daughter Helena Timmerman and a son Reverend Joseph (Jeanne).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Antonio J. Munoz, Oleg V. Romanko: Hitler's White Russians. Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944. Europa Books, Bayside NY 2003, ISBN 1-891227-42-4 , pp. 447f.
  2. ↑ a b ЯЗЭП САЖЫЧ. In: radabnr.org. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
  3. ^ John-Paul Himka, Joanna Beata Michlic : Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. U of Nebraska Press, 2013, ISBN 9780803246478 , p. 79
  4. ↑ a b Obituary in the New York Times
  5. ↑ Bellant - Old Nazis New Right & Republican Party (1991) as PDF
personal data
SURNAME Saschytsch, Jasep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сажыч, Язэп (Belarusian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Haradechna , Nawahrudak Raion
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2007
Place of death Detroit , USA