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Alphabetical Listing

Peter Aleksejev  -Served at Belzec

Andreyev  - Served at Treblinka. Supervised Yankiel Wiernik on the construction of the larger gas chambers in Treblinka, during the autumn of 1942. Remembered by Weirnik as of medium size, with a round stout face.

Wasil Antonov

Served at Sobibor

Ilya Badin

Served at Sobibor

Iwan Bartels

Served at Belzec. A Volksdeutscher

Sabit Barandtimov

Served in Sobibor

Aglam Batarinov

Served in Sobibor

Michali Belyi

Served at Sobibor

Ivan Bender

Served at Belzec

Wasil Bialakow

Served in Belzec

Jan Bialowas

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Bilik

Served in Sobibor

Bodessa

Served in Sobibor. Took part in the final executions of about 30 Jewish prisoners on 23 November 1943 in Camp III.

Dimitri Bogunow

Served in Sobibor

Mikolaj Bondarenko

Served in Treblinka

Peter Bondave

Served in Treblinka

Dimitriy Borodin

Served in Treblinka

Felix Brandecki

Served in Sobibor

Wasyl Bulji

Served in Belzec

Achmed Chaibulin

Served in Sobibor

Volodymr Cherniavshy

Served in Treblinka

Chariton Chromenko

Served in Sobibor

Heinrich Dalke

Served in Belzec and Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher.

Ignat Danylchenko

Served at Sobibor. Provided a statement that said he served as a guard at Sobibor with Ivan Demjanjuk from March 1943 and later at the Flossenburg concentration camp. Passed away in 1985 in Tobolsk, Siberia.

Ivan Demjanjuk

Born 3 April 1920 in Dub Macharenzi – Ukraine. Served in the Red Army, and captured by the Germans. As a Prisoner of War volunteered to serve in the SS and was trained at Trawniki, for service in the death camps.

According to the testimony of Ignat Danylchenko, Demjanjuk served as a guard in the death camp at Sobibor. After the war he emigrated to the United States of America with his wife Vera.

Extradited to Israel to stand trial as Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, he was tried in 1986, and found guilty. Demjanjuk appeal commenced in 1990, more than two years after he had been found guilty. His appeal was successful and he was released.

Vasilii Deptyarev

Served in Sobibor

Konstantin Dimida

Served in Sobibor

Piotr Dmitrenko

Served in Treblinka

Jakub Domeratzki

Served in Sobibor

Wladimieraz Duda

Served in Sobibor

Michal Dudko

Served in Sobibor

Fiodor Duszenko

Served in Treblinka

Karl Dzirkal

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher.

Jakow Engelhard

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher

Fedor Federenko

Served in Treblinka. Served in the Soviet army, just after the launch of Operation Barbarossa. Captured by the Germans, very early on and sent to various camps, including Chelm in Poland.

Recruited at Chelm to serve the SS, he was sent to the training camp at Trawniki. After a spell guarding the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, he was sent to Warsaw, and then onto the Treblinka during September 1942.

After the war settled in the USA and he was extradited to Russia in December 1984 and put on trial in 1986. He was found guilty after a ten- day public trial in June 1986.

His execution by firing squad was announced in July 1986.

Ivan Federenko

Served in Sobibor

Miron Flunt

Served in Sobibor

Gennardi Frolov

Served at Sobibor

Anatoli Goncharenko

Served in Sobibor

Nikolai Goncharenko

Served in Sobibor

Efim Goncharov

Served at Sobibor

Pyoter Goncharov

Served in Treblinka

Mikolaj Gonzural

Served in Treblinka

Nikolai Gordienko

Served in Sobibor

Fedor Gorlov

Served in Sobibor

Pavel Stepanovich Grigorchuk

Served in Treblinka

Wasyl Gruzin

Served in Belzec

Wasil Hetmaniec

Served in Sobibor

Jan Hotowrowiecz

Served in Sobibor

Michal Huber

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher.

Vasyl Huleyt

Served in Belzec

Wasyl Hutyt

Served in Belzec

Iwan Huzij

Served in Belzec. Photographed in Belzec village.

Ivan Indyukov

Served in Sobibor

Alexsai Isaenko

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Ivchenko

Served in Sobibor

Piotr Iwashenko

Served in Sobibor

Stefan Jadziol

Served in Belzec. Photographed with Boris Kotychin and in the Trawniki- bar.

Diner Jakovevits

Served at Belzec

Ivan Jaryniuk

Served in Sobibor

Iosof Jechal

Served in Sobibor

Wasili Jefimov

Served in Sobibor

Wasil Jelentschuk

Served in Treblinka

Ivan Jermoldayev

Served in Sobibor

Adolf Jeschke

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher.

Nikolai Judin

Served in Sobibor

Nurgail Kabroiv

Served in Sobibor

Alexander Kaiser

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher. Photographed in Italy with Gomerski and Hodl.

Ivan Kakorach

Served in Sobibor

Pavel Karas

Served in Sobibor

Fetich Karimov

Served in Sobibor

Alexander Karpenko

Served in Sobibor

Viktor Kisilew

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Klatt

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher. Ukrainian guard leader. Killed in the revolt on 14 October 1943

Boris Kolisyn

Served in Belzec

Adolf Kolenko

Served in Belzec

Piotr Koschekuk

Served in Sobibor

Jakow Koschemykin

Served in Sobibor

Volodia Koshewadzki

Served at Sobibor.  From Kiev, supervised the kitchen. Involved in a plot to poison the SS in the camp. Took money from the prisoners, one day he deserted with the money.

Kostenko

Served in Treblinka. Remembered by Wiernik, as an older soldier, who did not look very menacing.

Emil Kostenko

Served in Sobibor

Kyril Kostenko

Served in Belzec

Boris Kotychin

Served in Belzec. Photographed with Stefan Jadziol

Piotr Kozaczuk

Served at Sobibor

Mikolay Kozende

Served at Belzec

Ivan Kozlowski

Served at Belzec

Filip Krawchenko

Served in Sobibor

Nikolaii Krupinewich

Served in Sobibor

Iwan Kuczercha

Served in Belzec

Pavel Kudin

Served in Sobibor

Nikolai Kulak

Served in Treblinka

Wasyl Kulychin

Served in Belzec

Samuel Kunz

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher. Photographed at the camp entrance in Belzec, holding a mandolin.

Leonard Kurckov

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Kurinnoy

Served in Treblinka

Michali Kusevanov

Served in Sobibor

Ananiy Grigoryevich Kuzminski

Served in Treblinka

Nikolay Lebedenko

Served in Treblinka


Pavel Vladimirovich Leleko

Served in Treblinka

Filip Levchishin

Served in Treblinka

Peto Litus

Served in Belzec

Friedrich Lorenz

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher

Gregoril Lyachov

Served in Sobibor

Nikolay Makoda

Served in Treblinka

Nikolay Petrovich Malagon

Served in Treblinka. Born in 1919 native and resident of the village of Novo- Petrovka, Berdyansk district, Zaporozh’ye Region.

Called up for service in the Red Army in February 1941, took part in the defence of Kiev, and was wounded and captured by the Germans near the village of Borshchigovka.

Held in Prisoner of War camps in Zhitomir, Rovno, and then transferred to Chelm in Poland.

Selected at Chelm for service in the SS, he was transferred to the SS Training Camp at Trawniki.

In March 1942 he was sent to Zamosc where he guarded the property of a colonel.

He returned to Trawniki, and was then posted to Warsaw, where he was part of the guard unit that went to the death camp in Treblinka.

In February 1943 he was transferred to Belzec, and then in March / April 1943 he was transferred to Auschwitz, and he also served at Buchenwald.

Ivan Ivanovych Marchenko

Served in Treblinka

Marchenko was born during 1911 in the village of Serhiyivka, Dniepropetrovsky Oblast.

Drafted into the Soviet army in 1941, captured by the Germans. Sent to the Prisoner of War camp in Chelm he volunteered for service in the SS, and was sent to the SS training camp in Trawniki.

Following this he spent some time guarding the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, and from then onto Treblinka.

Marchenko was one of the “motorists” who along with Nikolay Shalayev herded the Jews into the Treblinka gas chambers, and turned on the motors which fed the carbon monoxide into the gas chambers, following a command from the Germans to “ turn on the water”.

The Jews in the death camp commando’s called him “ Ivan the Terrible” (Ivan Grozny).

He exhibited special savagery in dealing with the Jews during the killing process, he killed people with an obvious satisfaction and beat them with whatever was at hand.

He was photographed with Ivan Tkachuk in Treblinka. During 1943 he was transferred to Trieste, and in 1944 he fled to the partisans in Yugoslavia, from the City of Fiume.

His subsequent fate is unknown, but he was never tried for his part of the destruction of thousands of people.

Pawel Markarenko

Served in Sobibor

Moisei Martoszenko

Served in Treblinka

Nikolai Martynov

Served in Sobibor

Terentij Martynov

Served in Sobibor

Andrei Mashenko

Served in Sobibor

Nikolay Matwijenko

Served in Belzec

Nikolai Medvedev

Served in Sobibor

Theodozy Melnik

Served in Treblinka

Pavel Mordwinichev

Served in Sobibor

Bari Nabiyew

Served in Sobibor

Andrej Nagornyi

Served in Sobibor

Mikolaj Nidosrelow

Served in Treblinka

Ivan Nikoforov

Served in Belzec and Sobibor.

Wasily Nijko

Served in Sobibor

Anatoli Olexenko

Served in Sobibor

Daniel Onoprijenko

Served in Treblinka

Vasilij Orlovski

Served in Belzec

Peter Oster

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher

Mikolaj Osyczanski

Served in Treblinka

Franz Pamin

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher.

Ivan Panashuk

Served in Sobibor

Anatoli Pankov

Served in Sobibor

Aleksander Paraschenko

Served in Treblinka

Yevdokim Parfinyuk

Served in Treblinka

Nikolai Pavli

Served in Belzec

Nikolay Payevshchik

Served at Treblinka

Gygori Peczenyt

Served in Belzec

Dimitrii Pickerov

Served in Sobibor

Alexey Pietka

Served in Belzec

Pinneman

Served in Treblinka. A Volksdutscher. Photographed with August Hengst and others.

Genrikh Pitnowij

Served in Belzec. Photographed in the Trawniki- bar.

Michal Pocholenko

Served in Belzec

Wasyl Podienko

Served in Belzec

Wasyl Podionak

Served in Belzec

Leon Polakow

Served in Treblinka

Michal Polenko

Served in Belzec

Gregorz Preczony

Served in Belzec

Samuil Martinovich Prits ( Prishch)

Served in Treblinka

Wasyl Prochenko

Served in Belzec

Dimitri Prochin

Served in Belzec

Alexander Prus

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher

Michali Reschetnikov

Served in Sobibor

Igor Rezverchy

Served in Sobibor

Alexander Rittich

Served in Treblinka

Robertus

Served in Treblinka. An Oberwachman, who was attacked in the Totenlager by one of the Jewish work commandos, he was cut on the neck by a razor.

The working detachment of about 10-15 Jews were shot by the excavator on the orders of Kurt Franz.

Heinrich Rohle

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutsher.

Boris Rogoza

Served at Belzec and Treblinka. At Treblinka he was head of the Ukrainian guards

Particularly brutal as remembered by Willenberg, and Glazar remembered he was one of the few Ukrainian whose surname was known to the Jews.

Rosenholz

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher. Photographed with a number of other Volksdeutscher guards, at the main gate at Belzec

Arnold Rosenko

Served at Belzec

Grigorij Rubez

Served at Treblinka

Piotr Rudenko

Served in Sobibor

Wasyl Rudenko

Served in Treblinka

Fyodor Ryabeka

Served in Treblinka. Ryabeka – (called Rebeka in Malgon’s statement) worked at the Lazaret and sometimes boasted that he worked so hard that the barrel of his sub-machine gun had become red, killing those Jews unfit to be sent to the gas chambers.

Prokofiy Ryabtsev

Served in Treblinka

Vasilii Ryschkov

Served in Sobibor

Viktor Sabat

Served in Belzec

Chares Sabirov

Served in Sobibor

Samuel

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher. Photographed at the main gate at Belzec with other Volksdeutscher guards.

Petro Sbesnikov

Served at Sobibor

Mikolay Scheffer

Served at Treblinka. A Volksdeutscher.

Dimitrii Schevchenko

Served at Sobibor

Pavel Shicavin

Served at Sobibor

Wasil Schischajew

Served at Treblinka

Kamil Schirpev

Served at Sobibor

Iwan Schmidkin

Served at Treblinka

Heinz Schmidt

Served at Belzec. A Volksdeutscher from Latvia, who was in charge of the Jewish Sonderkommando.

Every day this guard personally murdered 30 – 40 members of the Sonderkommando. Following the dismantling of the camp, served in Italy. Committed suicide in Italy.

Klaus Schreiber

Served in Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher. Killed in the revolt on 14 October 1943.

Aleksander Schultz

Served at Belzec and Treblinka. A Volksdeutscher.

Emanuel Genrikhov Schultz

Served at Treblinka and Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher. Served in Italy.

Ernst Schumacher

Served at Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher.

Mikolaii Seleznev

Served at Sobibor

Nikolay Senik

Served at Treblinka

Mikolay Senykow

Served in Treblinka

Gregorij Sergienko

Served in Sobibor

Dimitriy Serik

Served in Sobibor

Nikolay Shalayev

Born 1921. Served in Treblinka. Came to Treblinka in September 1942.

Worked with Marchenko as a “motorist” turning on the gas engines, that fed carbon monoxide into the gas chambers, which killed the Jews inside the chambers.

From Treblinka he was transferred to Trieste, Italy.

Ivan Shevchenko

Served in Treblinka

Ivan Shukow

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Danilovich Shvidkoy

Served in Treblinka

Maxim Sirenko

Served in Sobibor

Vladimir Sirotenko

Served in Sobibor

Nikolay Skakodub

Served in Treblinka

Grigoriy Skydan

Served in Treblinka

Semion Sokorev

Served in Sobibor

Kuzma Sokur

Served in Sobibor

Jakub Systola

Served in Belzec

Wasyl Szacholij

Served in Belzec

Oswald Strebel

Served in Treblinka. A Volksdeutscher. He settled in the farmhouse after the camp was dismantled.

Dimitri Szpak

Served in Belzec

Profiry Szpak

Served in Belzec

Heinrich Szpliny

Served in Sobibor

Alexander Szwab

Served in Belzec

Ivan Terekhov

Served in Treblinka

Fiodor Tichonowski

Served in Sobibor

Iwan Tichonowski

Served in Belzec

Ivan Tischenko

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Tkachuk

Served in Treblinka. Photographed with Ivan Marchenko.

Wilhelm Trautwein

Served in Belzec. A Volksdeutscher. Photographed at the main entrance of the Belzec death camp with other Volksdeutscher guards.

Wasyl Tribenko

Served in Belzec

Wladimir Tscherniewskij

Served in Treblinka

Alexander Twerdochlib

Served in Belzec

Jakub Urnan

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Ustinnokov

Served in Sobibor

Ivan Vakutenko

Served in Sobibor

Sergey Vasilenko

Served in Treblinka

Kuzma Vaskin

Served in Sobibor

Aleksander Voleshenko

Served in Treblinka

Efim Volynieytz

Served in Sobibor

Yakob Wasem

Served in Sobibor

Iwan Wasilenko

Served in Treblinka

Fiodor Wedenko

Served in Sobibor

Fiodor Wedryhan

Served in Belzec

Petro Wedryhan

Served in Belzec

Ivan Werdenik

Served in Belzec

Edward Wlasiuk

Served in Belzec. Gassing mechanic, the first assistant of Hackenholt in the gassing barracks. Photographed a number of times.

Wasyl Woloszyn

Served in Belzec and Treblinka.

Michal Wonk

Served in Belzec

Vasily Woronkow

Served in Treblinka. Remembered by Wiernik as a brutal guard who tortured and killed the Jewish workers building the new gas chambers in Treblinka during the autumn of 1942.

Jakub Wysota

Served in Belzec

Aleksander Yasko

Served in Sobibor

Alexander Ivanovich Yeger

Served in Treblinka. Born 25 June 1918. An SS- Zugwachmann at Treblinka.  A Volksdeutscher.

Vasily Yelenchuk

Served in Treblinka

Konstantin Zabertnev

Served in Sobibor

Iwan Zajczew

Served at Belzec and Sobibor

Trofim Zavidenko

Served in Treblinka

Emil Zischer

Served at Sobibor. A Volksdeutscher.

Ivan Zuk

Served at Belzec

Sources:

Belzec, Sobibor , Treblinka by Yitzhak Arad – Bloomington Indiana University Press 1987.
Sobibor The Forgotten Revolt by Thomas (Toivi) Blatt HEP Issaquah 1998.
Belzec by Rudolf Reder – Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim – Brezezinka.
The Weiner Library Bulletin 1977 Vol XXX.
Surviving Treblinka by Samuel Willenberg – Basil Blackwell 1989.
Trap With a Green Fence by Richard Glazar – NorthWestern University Press 1999.

Ivan the Terrible by Tom Teicholz – Futura Publications 1990.
The Death Camp Treblinka by Alexander Donat – Holocaust Library New York 1979.
USHMM.
Wiener Library.

Testimony / Unpublished Reports / Private Collections:

Christian Wirth and the First Phase of Einsatz Reinhard by Michael Tregenza.
Robin O’Neil.
Holocaust Historical Society.
Chris Webb.
Michael Tregenza.
Regional MuseumTomaszow Lubelski

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