The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service yesterday filed a suit aimed at revoking the American citizenship of a Ukrainian immigrant accused of helping the Nazis kill thousands of Jews at the Treblinka concentration camp during World War II.
The defendant, Feodore-Fedorenko, 69, a retired carpenter, was found living in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Miami Beach. He was charged with providing false information, including the claim that he was Polish instead of Ukrainian, to obtain a visa to enter the United States in 1949. He came to the U.S. as displaced person from Bremen, West Germany.
John W. Price, a regional counsel for the INS here, filed an affidavit which said that Fedorenko was a leader of the 200-man Ukrainian guard at Treblinka; that he cruelly beat Jews arriving in rail cars at the camp; that he “shot people at the edge of a pit in which a fire was burning so that their bodies fell into the fire, because they were Jewish”; that he beat Jewish arrivals with whips and shot many arrivals because they were Jewish; and that he “went into the woods near the camp to apprehend Jews who were hiding out there,” brought them back, “hung them on gallows by their feet and shot them because they were Jewish.”
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