The Holocaust survivors Association has demanded that the Soviet Union set a date for the trial of Feodor Fedorenko, a former SS guard at the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, Poland.
Fedorenko was deported by the United States to the USSR last month, culminating a seven-year prosecutorial effort by the Department of Justice. In a court decision upheld in 1981 by the U.S. Supreme Court, Fedorenko was found to have participated in the persecution of Jewish inmates confined at the Treblinka camp. Some 900,000 Jews perished there during World War II. Survivors who testified at Fedorenko’s trial in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida recounted the Ukrainian guard’s commission of numerous atrocities and brutalities.
“A beast like Fedorenko must not be permitted to go free,” said John Ranz, president of the Holocaust Survivors Association. Joining Ranz’s call for justice was Dr. Harry Faivus, chairman of The Generation After, a New York City-based organization of children of Holocaust survivors.
Nothing that the Soviet government and media have thus far been silent about Fedorenko, Faivus called upon the Russians to fulfill their “moral obligation” to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
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