Szehinskyj Theodor

Publié le par Roger Cousin

Theodor Szehinskyj (born February 14, 1924 in Mallnow, Poland) is an alleged World War II war criminal.

Szehinskyj Theodor

He was a member of an SS Totenkopf Battalion and is accused of having been a guard in three concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Szehinskyj emigrated to the United States after the war but was named as a war criminal by the US Department of Justice in 2000 and subsequently had his citizenship revoked and is facing attempts to deport him from the country. He is on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.

Theodor Szehinskyj family were Ukrainians resident in Poland. Fluent in both Polish and Ukrainian, he grew up on his parents' farm in Mallnow and worked there after completing seven grades of school. After the Soviets occupied Mallnow during World War II and collectivized agriculture, he left his farm and moved to Lvov where he was captured by the Germans in early 1942.

He was transported to Vienna and worked intermittently on a farm in Austria. From 1943 to early 1945, he allegedly served in the Waffen-SS belonging SS Totenkopf Division in the concentration camps of Gross-RosenSachsenhausen and Warsaw. He was allegedly involved in the transport of prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before the war ended in 1945. In 1950, Szehinskyj emigrated with his wife and daughter to the United States and worked as a machinist for General Electric.

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