US Judge Orders Alleged Nazi Deportation

World | April 19, 2003, Saturday // 00:00

A judge in the United States has ordered the deportation of an elderly Ukrainian-born man accused of being a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World WarII.Theodor Szehinskyj, 79, is accused of serving in a Waffen-SS Death's Head unit during the war and helping to guard prisoners in the Fross-Rosen,Sachsenhausen and Warsaw concentration camps from 1943 to 1945. Mr. Szehinskyj has told investigators in Philadelphia he was a farmhand during the war and had nothing to do with the Nazis. If the deportation order is not appealed, it is unclear how soon he would be forced to leave or where he might go.

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