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Subject: Holocaust Almanac:  Treblinka, Vasilenko Interrogation
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Archive/File: camps/aktion.reinhard/treblinka vasilenko.001
Last-Modified: 1994/10/06
Source: The United States Department of Justice

EXCERPT From Record of Interrogation of Defendant

City of Kiyev                                 18 September 1961

On this day and in accordance with the requirements of Articles 143
and 145 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Ukrainian SSR, Lt.
Colonel LYSENKO, Senior Investigator of the Investigating Department
of the Committee of State Security of the Council of Ministers of the
Ukrainian SSR, interrogated the defendant -
   
      VASILENKO, Sergey Stepanovich, born in 1917, native and resident
      of the village of Lenino, Radomishl' district, Zhitomar Region,
      a Ukrainian, citizen of the USSR.

      The interrogation began at 10.15 a.m.

Question: Who else do you know of the basis of common service in the
German SS formations in the Treblinka death camp?

Answer: On the basis of common service in German formations I know
these individuals:

.....

FEDORENKO - I do not know his first name, he served in the platoon of
YEGER', had the rank of "SS Rotenwachman".

All the above mentioned by me persons, while in service in the "SS
Sonderkommand" of the Treblinka death camp, took direct part, as I
did, in the extermination of people there in gas chambers and by
shooting - in this consisted the service of each one of them; all of
them took part in unloading people from the railroad cars, in chasing
them into the undressing areas and the gas chambers; they also shot
people down in the infirmary and all of them showed great brutality to
these people, beat them up, that is did all that the Germans required
of them.

Question: Where were you sent from the Treblinka death camp and when?

Answer: In the fall of 1943, after the camp in Treblinka had been
burnt by rioting worker crews, the majority of the guards belonging to
the "Sonderkommand" were sent to Trawniki where there was a sort of
transfer point. I fell into this group. We stayed for a while in
Trawniki and then were sent together with a team to Oranienburg, where
we likewise stayed about two-three weeks. We had no duties in Trawniki
and in Oraneinburg.

That same year of 1943, at the end of the year, some of the guards
were sent from Oranienburg to the Stutthof concentration camp. I was
sent there. FEDORENKO ... and other guards, the names of whom I do not
now remember, were also transferred with me to Stutthof for guard
duty.

The interrogation was conducted with a break from 1 p.m. to 2.50 p.m.
and was ended at 5.30 p.m.

The record was read to me at my request and has been taken down from
my words correctly. (SIGNATURE)

Interrogation made by: SENIOR INVESTIGATOR OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT
OF THE COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE
UKRAINIAN SSR, Lt. Colonel LYSENKO

The Excerpt is true: FIRST DEPUTY PROCURATOR OF THE CRIMEAN REGION
Senior Councillor of Justice KUPTSOV
"29" March 1976.

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