Feodor Fedorenko

==World War II==

==World War II==

Fedorenko was mobilized into the [[Red Army]] in June 1941, around the time of the Nazi German [[Operation Barbarossa]]. He was a truck driver, and had no previous military training. Within two or three weeks, Fedorenko's group was encircled twice by the German army. He escaped the first time, but he was captured three days later by the Germans and transported to [[Zhytomyr]], then [[Rivne]], and finally to [[Chełm]], Poland.

Fedorenko was forced into the [[Red Army]] in June 1941, around the time of the Nazi German [[Operation Barbarossa]]. He was a truck driver, and had no previous military training. Within two or three weeks, Fedorenko's group was encircled twice by the German army. He escaped the first time, but he was captured three days later by the Germans and transported to [[Zhytomyr]], then [[Rivne]], and finally to [[Chełm]], Poland.

At the Chełm [[prisoner-of-war]] camp, German officers from [[Operation Reinhard]] recruited 200 to 300 captured Soviet soldiers for military training as [[auxiliary police]] in the service of Nazi Germany within [[General Government]]. They were sent to the [[Trawniki concentration camp]] ''SS'' training division, and Fedorenko was among them.

At the Chełm [[prisoner-of-war]] camp, German officers from [[Operation Reinhard]] forced 200 to 300 captured Soviet soldiers for military training as [[auxiliary police]] in the service of Nazi Germany within [[General Government]]. They were sent to the [[Trawniki concentration camp]] ''SS'' training division, and Fedorenko was among them.

Fedorenko was one of approximately 5,000 [[Trawniki men]] trained as Holocaust executioners by ''[[SS-Hauptsturmführer]]'' [[Karl Streibel]] from [[Operation Reinhard]].{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007397 |title=Trawniki |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |author=Holocaust Encyclopedia |access-date=July 21, 2011 |format=permission granted to be reused, in whole or in part, on Wikipedia; [[OTRS]] ticket no. 2007071910012533 |quote=''Text from USHMM has been released under the [[GFDL]].''}} The [[Trawnikis|Hiwi shooters]], known in German as the ''Trawnikimänner'', were deployed to all major killing sites of the [[Final Solution]], augmented by the ''SS'' and [[Schutzpolizei (Nazi Germany)|Schupo]], as well as ''[[Ordnungspolizei#Police Battalions|Ordnungspolizei]]'' formations. The German Order Police performed [[Roundup (history)|roundups]] inside the [[Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland]] shooting everyone unable to move or attempting to flee, while the Trawnikis conducted large-scale civilian massacres in the same locations.{{cite web |url=http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |last=Browning |first=Christopher R. |author-link=Christopher Browning |orig-year=1992 |year=1998 |title=Arrival in Poland |publisher=Penguin Books |work=Ordinary Men: [[Reserve Police Battalion 101]] and the Final Solution in Poland |access-date=July 12, 2014 |pages=52, 77, 79, 80, 135 |format=PDF file, direct download 7.91 MB complete |quote= |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019043400/http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}''Also:'' It was their primary purpose of training.{{cite web |url=http://www.trawniki.hg.pl/traw/obozjab.html |title=Hitlerowski obóz w Trawnikach |publisher=Trawniki official website |work=The camp history |access-date=July 12, 2014 |author=Mgr Stanisław Jabłoński (1927–2002) |language=pl}} In the spring of 1942 Fedorenko was deployed from Trawniki to the [[Lublin Ghetto]]. It is known from historical record that between mid-March and mid-April 1942 over 30,000 Jews from Lublin Ghetto were transported to their deaths [[Holocaust train|in cattle trucks]] at the [[Bełżec extermination camp]] and additional 4,000 at [[Majdanek]].Jack Fischel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HrW-b3Q-3ewC&dq=Lublin+ghetto&pg=PA58 ''The Holocaust''], Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pg. 58; in [[Google Books]].Statistical data compiled on the basis of [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208215116/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ |date=2016-02-08 }} by ''[[Virtual Shtetl]]'' [[Museum of the History of the Polish Jews]] as well as [http://www.izrael.badacz.org/historia/szoa_getto.html "Getta Żydowskie," by ''Gedeon''] and [http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm "Ghetto List"] by Michael Peters. Fedorenko claimed in his postwar hearing that he was issued a rifle which was not fired. From Lublin, he was sent to the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] with his ''[[Sonderdienst]]'' battalion of 80 to 100 executioners. He was dispatched to Treblinka approximately in September 1942.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mV0ZBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Fedorenko%22+Treblinka&pg=PA208 | title=The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=2014 | access-date=12 December 2014 | author=Chris Webb | page=208 | isbn=978-3838205465 }}

Fedorenko was one of approximately 5,000 [[Trawniki men]] trained as Holocaust executioners by ''[[SS-Hauptsturmführer]]'' [[Karl Streibel]] from [[Operation Reinhard]].{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007397 |title=Trawniki |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |author=Holocaust Encyclopedia |access-date=July 21, 2011 |format=permission granted to be reused, in whole or in part, on Wikipedia; [[OTRS]] ticket no. 2007071910012533 |quote=''Text from USHMM has been released under the [[GFDL]].''}} The [[Trawnikis|Hiwi shooters]], known in German as the ''Trawnikimänner'', were deployed to all major killing sites of the [[Final Solution]], augmented by the ''SS'' and [[Schutzpolizei (Nazi Germany)|Schupo]], as well as ''[[Ordnungspolizei#Police Battalions|Ordnungspolizei]]'' formations. The German Order Police performed [[Roundup (history)|roundups]] inside the [[Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland]] shooting everyone unable to move or attempting to flee, while the Trawnikis conducted large-scale civilian massacres in the same locations.{{cite web |url=http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |last=Browning |first=Christopher R. |author-link=Christopher Browning |orig-year=1992 |year=1998 |title=Arrival in Poland |publisher=Penguin Books |work=Ordinary Men: [[Reserve Police Battalion 101]] and the Final Solution in Poland |access-date=July 12, 2014 |pages=52, 77, 79, 80, 135 |format=PDF file, direct download 7.91 MB complete |quote= |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019043400/http://hampshirehigh.com/exchange2012/docs/BROWNING-Ordinary%20Men.%20Reserve%20Police%20Battalion%20101%20and%20the%20Final%20Solution%20in%20Poland%20(1992).pdf |url-status=bot: unknown }}''Also:'' It was their primary purpose of training.{{cite web |url=http://www.trawniki.hg.pl/traw/obozjab.html |title=Hitlerowski obóz w Trawnikach |publisher=Trawniki official website |work=The camp history |access-date=July 12, 2014 |author=Mgr Stanisław Jabłoński (1927–2002) |language=pl}} In the spring of 1942 Fedorenko was deployed from Trawniki to the [[Lublin Ghetto]]. It is known from historical record that between mid-March and mid-April 1942 over 30,000 Jews from Lublin Ghetto were transported to their deaths [[Holocaust train|in cattle trucks]] at the [[Bełżec extermination camp]] and additional 4,000 at [[Majdanek]].Jack Fischel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HrW-b3Q-3ewC&dq=Lublin+ghetto&pg=PA58 ''The Holocaust''], Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pg. 58; in [[Google Books]].Statistical data compiled on the basis of [http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208215116/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/selectcity/ |date=2016-02-08 }} by ''[[Virtual Shtetl]]'' [[Museum of the History of the Polish Jews]] as well as [http://www.izrael.badacz.org/historia/szoa_getto.html "Getta Żydowskie," by ''Gedeon''] and [http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm "Ghetto List"] by Michael Peters. Fedorenko claimed in his postwar hearing that he was issued a rifle which was not fired. From Lublin, he was sent to the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] with his ''[[Sonderdienst]]'' battalion of 80 to 100 executioners. He was dispatched to Treblinka approximately in September 1942.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mV0ZBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Fedorenko%22+Treblinka&pg=PA208 | title=The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance | publisher=Columbia University Press | year=2014 | access-date=12 December 2014 | author=Chris Webb | page=208 | isbn=978-3838205465 }}