John demjanjuk biography

Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940.
John Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920, Makharintsy, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.—died March 17, 2012, Bad Feilnbach, Germany) was a Ukrainian-born autoworker.
John Demjanjuk was a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg.

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John Demjanjuk

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolaiovych and the family name is Demjanjuk.

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. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In 1993, the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28,060 murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor.

Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans in spring 1942, becoming a Trawniki collaborator. After training, he served at Sobibor extermination camp and at least two concentrat

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John Demjanjuk : Untangling "Ivan the Terrible"

In 2010, John Demjanjuk turned 90 years old. The man who came to be known as ‘Ivan the Terrible’ and the subject of the most protracted war crimes case in history is on trial in Germany for mass murder committed before most people alive today were born, and nearly 33 years after he was first identified.

The year Demjanjuk was identified, the Toronto Blue Jays played their first baseball game ever, Star Wars exploded on the movie screens, Elvis Presley died, a new computer company introduced the Apple II, a young standup comedian named Jay Leno first appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office asked Eliyahu Rosenberg, an Israeli warehouse manager who escaped from the Treblinka extermination complex in 1943, to look at some old photos.

Rosenberg recognized a man from a 1951 immigration photo and identified him as an S.S. ‘Wachman’ (guard) who prisoners called ‘Ivan Grozny’ (Ivan the Terrible). Two other survivors, Pinchas Epstein and Chaim Rajrodski, also recognized t

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John Demjanjuk: Prosecution of A Nazi Collaborator

Overview

Born in Ukraine, John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serving as a collaborator of the Nazi regime.

Investigations of Demjanjuk's Holocaust-era past began in 1975. Proceedings in the United States twice stripped him of his American citizenship and ordered him deported. The US extradited him to Israel, where his conviction as “Ivan the Terrible” at the Treblinka killing center was reversed on appeal. Germany later tried him for crimes at the Sobibor killing center. The German case set an important precedent and led to subsequent prosecutions in Germany that are continuing more than 70 years after the Holocaust.

Some facts of Demjanjuk's past are not in dispute. He was born in March 1920 in Dobovi Makharyntsi, a village in Vinnitsa Oblast of what was then Soviet Ukraine. Conscripted into the Soviet army, he was captured by German troops at the battle of Kerch in May 1942. Demjanjuk immigrated to the United States in 1952 and b