Theodor Szehinskyj

Theodor Szehinskyj (born February 14, 1924 in Malnow, Poland; † 2014 ) was a member of an SS death's head battalion and was deployed in three concentration camps . He was supposed to be expelled from the US by the US Department of Justice in 2000 for his service for the Nazi regime during World War II , but not deported until 2014.

Theodor Szehinskyj family was of Ukrainian ethnicity. He grew up on his parents' farm and worked there. After the collectivization of agriculture by the Soviets , he left his parents' farm. In December 1941 he moved to Lviv to look for work. He eventually found work in as a lumberjack. In February 1942, German soldiers arrested him and a group of other youths in Lemberg. He was transported to Krems an der Donau for forced labor . He worked on a farm whose farmer served in the Wehrmacht. The Kremser Labor Office noted on his work card as the end date 31 January 1943 from 15 January 1943 until the spring of 1945 he served in the the Waffen-SS belonging SS Totenkopf Division in the concentration camps Gross-Rosen , Sachsenhausen and Warsaw . He was probably involved in the transport of prisoners from Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before the end of the war in 1945. In 1950 Szehinskyj emigrated to the United States with his wife and daughter. He first worked on a farm in York County, Pennsylvania. The Delaware County Court of Common Pleas naturalized him on March 13, 1958 as a US citizen. He retired in 1984. worked as His US citizenship was revoked in 2000. He was supposed to be deported in 2003.

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1. ↑ Inside the race to deport a 94-year-old Nazi guard The Denver Post , accessed April 29, 2018
2. ↑ http://articles.philly.com/2013-08-27/news/41459421_1_nazi-war-crimes-theodor-szehinskyj-accused-nazi
3. ↑ http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/00d0579p.pdf