Within limitations of the Internet, nothing places Yaroslav Hunka in military service active in Poland, nor in the Second Polish Republic territory, nor in Ukraine.
History of the formation of the 14th Waffen SS aka 1st Galacian division is online - its development and formation (1943), its initial deployment in the winter of 1944, and major combat, about 30% surviving Russian attacks during the summer of 1944, may be studied.
The division was reformed in the second half of the 1944 summer, followed by service in Slovakia, Slovenia, and Austria.
Yaroslav Hunka volunteered to join up, in 1944, when he was 18-19 years old.
Survivors - captured by American and British troops, were handed over to Polish military authority and operations in Italy.
War crimes investigations followed, there, and under Allied Authority, and for the Nuremburg Trials, and by Canada - and again by Canada in 1985.
At: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
Scroll down to "Atrocities" - EXCERPT:
Although the Waffen-SS as a whole was declared to be a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials, the Galician Division has not specifically been found guilty of any war crimes by any war tribunal or commission. However, numerous accusations of impropriety have been leveled at the division, and at particular members of the division, from a variety of sources. It is difficult to determine the extent of war criminality among members of the division.
If prior service in Nazi police units is a measure of criminality, only a small number were recruited from established police detachments. Among those who had transferred from police detachments, some had been members of a coastal defence unit that had been stationed in France, while others came from two police battalions that had been formed in the spring of 1943, too late to have participated in the murder of Ukraine's Jews.
True. And some of them joined the Red Army and participated in the atrocities along the way. But you never hear of any former Red Army members being prosecuted for anything, Jew or gentile.
Thank you for stating the obvious, but therein lies the problem. 80 years later it is not possible to know what his level of participation was at 16 unless he had a long history of bragging about it that was documented. Obviously, he does not.
The crimes you speak of are horrible and heinous and unfortunately similar to activities that have been taking place in Ukraine by people from both sides of the current conflict. This includes people who are being supported by the taxpayers of the United States. These are the crimes that virtue signaling do-gooders such as yourself should be focusing on... These are the crimes that have a chance of being prosecuted and maybe even prevented NOW. Instead, we have a whole cabal of people cheering them on.
About a month ago, my wife and I met a group of boys aged 15 to 17 who were being sheltered by a local Ukrainian church. They had been sent abroad by their families after other boys that these kids knew were kidnapped by USA supported Ukrainian authorities at school and off the streets and used as cannon fodder in the “Spring counter-offensive”. None of the boys we met knew if they would ever see their families again. Some of their friends had already been killed. If these kids are found after overstaying their visas they will be immediately sent back to Ukraine unlike the 35,000,000 or more other illegal aliens currently residing here.
These boys are the same age as the 98-year-old was when his home was captured by the Germans.