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Historians in Germany have released previously unseen photos of the Nazi Sobibor death camp, including what they believe are images of John Demjanjuk, who was sentenced in 2011 for his role in the ...
John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; [a] 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. [2] Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being misidentified as " Ivan the Terrible ...
Depicted person: John Demjanjuk – Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012) Depicted place: Depicted place: Jerusalem District Court: Date: Taken on 16 February 1987: Medium: black-and-white photography: Dimensions: 35 mm (1.37 in) Collection
Picture of Trawniki guards at Sobibor, taken in 1943. Demjanjuk has been "inconclusively identified" as the guard in the middle front left. [30] John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who joined the Trawniki men and served as a guard at Sobibor. Demnjanjuk immigrated to the United States, but was deported to Israel to stand trial as "Ivan the Terrible" in ...
The documentary shows the legal battles of Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in Cleveland accused of being a German-Nazi prison camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible." Arrested, denaturalized as an American citizen and extradited to Israel in 1986, Demjanjuk was tried as a war criminal in a highly-publicized trial.
Kudryashov, Sergei, "Ordinary Collaborators: The Case of the Travniki Guards," in Mark and Ljubica Erickson (eds), Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy Essays in Honour of John Erickson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), 226–239. Steinhart, Eric C. (2009). "The Chameleon of Trawniki: Jack Reimer, Soviet Volksdeutsche, and the Holocaust".
In May 2011, John Demjanjuk was convicted for being an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews while serving as a watchman at Sobibor. [282] [page needed] He was sentenced to five years in prison, but was released pending appeal. He died in a German nursing home on 17 March 2012, aged 91, while awaiting the hearing. [283]
Demjanjuk came back to the United States, but freedom was temporary. In 2009, he was deported again. A Munich court ruled that he helped kill 28,000 Jews at Sobibor extermination camp in Poland ...