Deportation proceedings will begin in New Haven, Conn. tomorrow against Feodor Federenko of Waterbury, who was a guard in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka during World War II. Federenko, naturalized in 1970, was stripped of his citizenship last January on grounds that he had lied about his wartime activities when he applied for admission to the U.S. in 1949.
According to his attorney, Brian Gildea, Federenko, who was born in the Ukraine, has applied to the Soviet Union for permanent resident status. His wife and two sons presently live in the Ukraine and he has visited the Soviet Union several times since 1973. There are no charges against him in that country, Gildea said.
Federenko lost his citizenship after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal against a lower court’s finding that he had entered the U.S. under false pretenses. When he applied for an American visa under the Displaced Persons Act, he falsely stated that he had spent the war years as a form and factory worker after his capture by the Germans in 1941.
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