Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Chapter 1 Introduction to Investigations and Trials 7
Chapter 2 The Red Army Overruns Eastern Poland and Captures Documents, and Investigations and Trials Begin 16
The Capture of Lublin 16
Belzec 18
Sobibor 21
Treblinka 26
Chapter 3 Polish Investigations and Legal Proceedings 29
Chapter 4 Interrogations of Former Trawniki Personnel 33
Protocol of Interrogation, Pavel Kozlov, August 1944 33
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolaj Olejnikov, January 10, 1947 34
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Vasili Smetanyuk, July 11, 1947 37
Protocol of Interrogation, Josef Masyuk, August 20, 1947 38
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Dimitri Korzhinsky, August 1947 39
Protocol of Interrogation of the Arrestee Vladimir Emelyanov, September 23, 1947 40
Protocol of Interrogation, Ivan Knysh, January 29, 1947 42
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolaj Potyatynik, Februarys, 1948 44
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Alexander Yeger, April 2, 1948 45
Protocol of Interrogation, Fedor Tartynskj, June 7, 1948 46
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolaj Tkachuk, September 2, 1948 48
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolaj Belous, March 15, 1949 49
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolaj Pavli, November 17, 1949 50
Protocol of Interrogation, Andrej Kuchma, February 8, 1950 52
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolai Shalayev, November 27, 1950 53
Protocol of Interrogation, Nikolai Shalayev, 1950 54
Nikolai Shalayev, December 18, 1950 56
Protocol of Interrogation, Ivan Shvidkij, July 10, 1951 59
Protocol of Interrogation, Fedor Tikhonovskj, January 21, 1955 61
Prokofij Ryabtsev, 1961 63
Protocol of IInterrogation, Nikolai Leontev, June 30, 1964 66
Protocol of Interrogation, Mikhail Korzhikov, September 9, 1964 67
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Grigorij Kniga, December 1964 70
Protocol of Interrogation, Alexander Zakharov, January 1965 71
Protocol of Interrogation, Zaki Tuktarov, February 1, 1965 72
Protocol of Interrogation, Prokofij Ryabtsev, February 3, 1965 74
Protocol of Interrogation, Mikhail Laptev, February 27, 1965 76
Protocol of Interrogation, Vasili Podenok, March 18, 1965 79
Protocol of Interrogation, Ivan Tkachuk, March 25, 1965 80
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Vasili Orlovskij, 1965 81
Excerpt of Protocol of Interrogation, Petr Browzew, August 1965 82
Protocol of Interrogation, Kiril Prochorenko, September 1965 83
Protocol of Interrogation, Vasili Litvinenko, January 19, 1968 85
Protocol of Interrogation, Yakov Klimenko, May 19, 1968 86
Protocol of Interrogation, Alexander Fedchenko, November 23, 1968 88
Protocol of Interrogation, Roman Pitrow, 1962 89
Excerpt of Testimony of Karl Streibel, January 1973, Streibel Trial, Hamburg 92
Protocol of Interrogation, Interrogation Prokofij Businnij, November 18, 1974 93
Chapter 5 Some Soviet Interrogation Trials and Case Records 95
Shevchenko Trial Indictment 95
Bill of Indictment of Sergej Vasilenko 96
Bill of Indictment of Ivan Terekhov 98
Information Sheet on the Arrest, Trial, and Conviction of Alexander Dukhno, Mikhail Korzhikow, and Ivan Voloshin 99
Sentencing of Alexander Zakharov 101
Protocol of Trial Proceedings, Ivan Kondratenko 102
Protocol of Court Hearing, Nikolaj Gutsulyak 105
Protocol of Trial Proceedings, Vladimir Terletskij 106
Protocol of Trial Proceedings, Filip Babenko 108
Bill of Indictment of Fedor Ryabeka, Mikhail Andreyenko, and Terentij Gordienko 110
Protocol of Trial Proceedings, Georgij Skydan 111
Protocol of Closed Trial Proceedings against Nikolai Shalayev 113
Protocol of Trial Proceedings, Ivan Shvidkij 115
Background Information Sheet on the Arrest, Trial, and Sentence of Vasili Shuller 118
Background Information Sheet on the Arrest, Trial, and Sentence of Nikolaj Skakodub 120
Schultz Trial 120
Zuev Trial 134
Chapter 6 Judgment in the Trial of Franz Swidersky 137
Chapter 7 DSI and US Cases 147
OSI 147
US vs. Fedorenko 150
US vs. Kairys 152
US vs. Hajda 155
US vs. Kwoczak 156
Mychailo Fostun 158
US vs. Sawchuk 159
US vs. Reimer 159
Samuel Kunz 162
US vs. Zajanckauskas 163
Chapter 8 The Demjanjuk Case 166
Appendixes
Appendix A Trawniki Trials 184
Individual Trials by Soviet Courts, with Names of Defendants, Year and Location of Proceedings, and Sentences Where Known 184
Group Trials, Soviet Courts 186
Polish Courts 187
DOJ-OSI Civil Proceedings, United States 187
DOJ-Canada Civil Proceedings 188
Former Trawniki Guards Who Served as Witnesses at the Trials of Other Trawniki Guards 188
Appendix B Trawniki Documents Used in Soviet Trials and DOJ-OSI Proceedings 190
Personalbögen 190
Dienstausweisen 193
Deployment Rosters 193
Reports and Memos 195
Search for Wanted Persons 196
Appendix C Lists of Information 196
Interrogations 196
Trial Records 202
These Former Trawniki Guards Were Interrogated by These Soviet Investigators 203
Punishments of Former Trawniki Guards by Soviet Courts 208
Appendix D Reinhard Death Camp Guards Brought to Justice 211
Appendix E Auschwitz-Birkenau Guards Brought to Justice 213
Glossary 214
Endnotes 216
Sources 229
Photos 231
Index 282
