Unravelling University Megadonor Peter Jacyk's Nazi Sympathies
University of Alberta has $4 million in endowments honouring a benefactor who wanted to serve in the Waffen-SS and fundraised for an alleged death camp guard. But his influence spreads beyond U of A.
In The Progress Report, Duncan Kinney and I detailed more than $1.4 million in endowments and donations in honour of Nazi collaborators to the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (CIUS).
But there was a major name we left out, due to uncertainty about the extent of his connec…
