Nikolay Shalayev
Wachmann Nikolay Yegorovich Shalayev was an SS auxiliary guard trained at Trawniki and serving at the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He was one of two Ukrainian guards in charge of the motor that produced the exhaust fumes which were fed through pipes into the gas chambers during the killing process.
Shalayev was tried in the Soviet Union after the war, and sentenced to death in 1951 for treason. On 3 May 1951 he gave testimony to his KGB interrogators about the gassing at Treblinka. In an attempt to defuse the sheer enormity of his crimes he kept pointing his finger at the Jews from the Sonderkommando "helping him". Both Shalayev and Marczenko were sent by the SS to Trieste, Italy after Treblinka was closed, where they participated in the murder of prisoners at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp before the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.[Michele Lesie and Bill Sloat, Plain Dealer Cleveland.com]
