The University of Alberta is returning a $30,000 donation it received from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, saying it regrets any harm it may have caused by accepting the endowment in his name.
“On behalf of the university, I want to express our commitment to address anti-Semitism in any of its manifestations, including the ways in which the Holocaust continues to resonate in the present.”
Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, was invited to Ottawa last week for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Parliament, where Hunka was given a standing ovation after being pointed out by Speaker Anthony Rota.
It later emerged that the man Zelenskyy and others were applauding served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was part of Adolf Hitler’s forces during the Second World War.
At the University of Alberta, people can make donations that are then invested on their own, or pooled with other endowments, to generate interest that can be used to fund bursaries and researchers.
Over the last decade, ending in March of last year, the university’s endowment has earned an average annual return of 9.6 per cent.
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The University of Alberta is returning a $30,000 donation it received from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, saying it regrets any harm it may have caused by accepting the endowment in his name.
“On behalf of the university, I want to express our commitment to address anti-Semitism in any of its manifestations, including the ways in which the Holocaust continues to resonate in the present.”
Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, was invited to Ottawa last week for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Parliament, where Hunka was given a standing ovation after being pointed out by Speaker Anthony Rota.
It later emerged that the man Zelenskyy and others were applauding served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was part of Adolf Hitler’s forces during the Second World War.
At the University of Alberta, people can make donations that are then invested on their own, or pooled with other endowments, to generate interest that can be used to fund bursaries and researchers.
Over the last decade, ending in March of last year, the university’s endowment has earned an average annual return of 9.6 per cent.
The original article contains 351 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 46%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!