Background
He was born in Mallnow, Poland.
He was born in Mallnow, Poland.
Szehinskyj emigrated to the United States after the war, but was named as a war criminal by the United States Department of Justice in 2000, subsequently had his citizenship revoked, and is facing attempts to deport him from the country. He is on the Simon Wiesenthal Center"s list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. The Szehinskyj family were Ukrainians resident in Poland.
After the Soviets occupied Mallnow during World World War II and collectivized agriculture, he left his farm and moved to Lvov, where he was captured by the Germans in early 1942.
He was transported to Vienna and worked intermittently on a farm in Austria. From 1943 to early 1945 he allegedly served in the Waffen-Steamship belonging Steamship Totenkopf Division in the concentration camps of Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen and Warsaw.
He was allegedly involved in the transport of prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before the war ended in 1945.
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He was a member of an Steamship Totenkopf Battalion and is accused of having been a guard in three concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Ukraine.