Feodor Fedorenko

Who is Feodor Fedorenko?

Feodor Fedorenko, or Fyodor Federenko was a war criminal serving at Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. As a former Soviet citizen admitted to the United States under a DPA visa, Fedorenko became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1970. He was discovered in 1977 and denaturalized. Subsequently, he was extradited to the USSR, sentenced there to death for treason against his nation and participation in the Holocaust, and executed.

Federenko was born in the village of Sivash, in southern Ukraine. He was mobilized into the Soviet army in June 1941, around the time of the Nazi German Operation Barbarossa. He was a truck driver.