Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Danil'chenko's Testimony continues Summary: Soviet interrogation record Reply-To: poster Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Sobibor,Danil'chenko MINUTES OF INTERROGATION March 7, 1949 The City of Dniepropetrowsk We, the assistant military prosecutor of the forces of the Ministry for Internal Affairs of the Ukraine District, Major in the legal service Pidotov, and senior investigator in the Department of Investigations in the State Ministry of Defense, District of Dniepropetrowsk - Lt. Chernov, interrogated the accused: Ignat Terentiewitch Danilchenko The interrogation started at 23:00 hours. The interrogation ended at 01:00 hours. Question: Being shown to you is service certificate number 1016 in the German language with a photograph, confirmed by a stamp as being the picture of a man number 1016. To whom does this document belong? Answer: The certificate shown to me about service whose number is 1016 is a second copy of the certificate that was given to me at the end of the training in the police training camp of the SS in the town of Trawniki (Poland). The image appearing in the picture with number 1016 is me - Ignat Terentiewitch Danilchenko. The said photograph as made in Summer 1942, on the third day after the arrival at the police training camp of the SS in the township of Trawniki. Question: What period did you spend in the SS police training camp in the township of Trawniki? Answer: In the training camp in the township of Trawniki I spent almost three months, from June to September 1942. Question: Name the camps to which you went as part of the practical work during the studies at the SS police school in the township of Trawniki. Answer: During my studies at the SS police school in the township of Trawniki, I did not leave for anywhere, because in the framework of the practical work in the Trawniki camp, I and the other trainees guarded the camp in which were held Polish civilian detainees, and we accompanied them under guard to work. Question: Enumerate camps at which you served as a Wachman. Answer: During the whole of my service in the SS forces, I served at the Sobibor camp (Poland), in the towns of Flossenburg and Regensburg (Germany). Question: What was the designation of these camps? Answer: Sobibor camp (Poland) was an extermination camp or, as it was termed, a death camp. Its main designation was extermination of civilians from various countries. The extermination was perpetrated through suffocation by gasses in special chambers. In this camp I stayed, as a Wachman, for one year. During my stay at this camp, I had to guard the trains arriving with people sentenced to death, accompany them under guard to the second camp, as it was termed, where they were undressed, about which I have testified in the previous interrogations and can confirm this in full. The camps in the towns of Flossenburg and Regensburg were concentration camps where prisoners stayed and worked on special orders for the army. In these camps, I was engaged on guarding the prisoners and accompanying them under guard to work. Question:Give the names of the people from the District of Dniepropetrowsk who served with you in these camps. Answer: Together with me, from among the residents of the District of Dniepropetrowsk who served in these camps, were: Chomenko and Rodenko, about whose description and activity I have testified in the previous interrogations. Question: To whom from among your relatives and members of the village have you related about your service in the SS forces? Answer: About my service in the German army - SS forces, my mother, Ekolina Danilchenko knows, for I sent to her while I was in service a photograph in the uniform of an SS policeman and I wrote in a letter that I was serving in the German army. But about my service in the death camp and in the concentration camps I have told no-one; I kept it a secret. Question: Specify in which military unit you served at the beginning of the homeland war? Answer: At the beginning of the homeland war until I was taken captive, that is until May 1942, I served in artillery division no. 136. Question: What do you want to add to your testimony? Answer: I have nothing to add; I confirm in full my previous testimonies. The minutes have been read by me; are recorded correctly according to my words and therefore I am signing. (Signature: Danilchenko) The interrogation was conducted by: Assistant military prosecutor of the forces of the Internal Affairs Ministry of the District of Ukraine Major in the legal service Pidotov. (Signature) Senior investigator in the Department of Investigations at the State Ministry of Defense Lt. Chernov (Signature) Stamp of the USSR Attorney-General Correct. Director of the Office of the USSR Attorney-General - A.P. Vladimirov (Signature) The original in Criminal File (in the archives) No. 15457 versus Danilchenko, 47-68. Director of the Office of the USSR Attorney-General - A.P. Vladimirov - (Signature)
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