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  John Demjanjuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Demjanjuk himself testified during the trial in Israel that he was imprisoned in a camp in Chelmno until 1944, when he was transferred to another camp in Austria, where he remained until he joined an anti-Soviet Russian military unit funded by the German government until the surrender of Germany to the Allies in 1945.
Instead, the complaint alleged that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibór and Majdanek camps in Poland and at the Flossenburg camp in Germany.
Demjanjuk was put on trial again in 2001, and in February 2002, Matia ruled that Demjanjuk had not produced any credible evidence of his whereabouts during the war and that the Justice Department had proved its case against him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Demjanjuk   (1317 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: people/d/demjanjuk.john/synopsis-background
Demjanjuk insists he was in a POW camp in Chelm, Poland for the duration of the war.
The early adulthood of Ivan Demjanjuk is a far cry from the John Demjanjuk myth, that of an old man thrust into a whirlpool of false accusations and legal procedures unfettered by authentic innocence.
Demjanjuk escorting prisoners in all phases, from the unloading of the trains to the entrance to the gas chamber." While such testimony would seem to put Demjanjuk in harm's way, its purpose was to protect him.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.py?people/d/demjanjuk.john/synopsis-background   (2342 words)

  
 williamflynn.htm
Demjanjuk to be the infamous, blood-thirsty "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka.
Demjanjuk, who is now awaiting the outcome of an appeal of his death sentence, has insisted that he is the victim of mistaken identity.
Demjanjuk is the victim of an intentional forgery by the KGB.
thewebsafe.tripod.com /williamflynn.htm   (1733 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Appeals court: John Demjanjuk was a guard in Nazi camps, not eligible for ...
CINCINNATI – Retired autoworker John Demjanjuk served as a guard in Nazi concentration camps and was not eligible to obtain U.S. citizenship, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Demjanjuk, a refugee from Ukraine, was originally accused in 1977 by the Justice Department of being "Ivan the Terrible," a particularly sadistic Nazi guard who ran the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in occupied Poland.
Demjanjuk eventually persuaded the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn his conviction based on new evidence that someone else was Ivan the Terrible.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040430-0727-court-demjanjuk.html   (623 words)

  
 John Demjanjuk Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Born in Ukraine, John Demjanjuk immigrated to the United States after World War II and became a citizen.
A retired auto worker living in Ohio in the 1980s, Demjanjuk had his citizenship called into question by government officials amid an investigation that led to the allegation that he was the notorious Ivan the Terrible, a guard who ran the gas chambers in the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, Poland.
In Israel, Demjanjuk was sentenced to death for the crimes of Ivan the Terrible, but won release on appeal when further evidence from the Soviet Union indicated that he might not be Ivan.
www.bookrags.com /biography/john-demjanjuk-cri   (353 words)

  
 1993: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: A year of victories for John Demjanjuk (12/26/93)
In early March, John Demjanjuk, who still was awaiting the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling on his appeal of the 1988 conviction and death sentence handed down by an Israeli District Court, went on a three-day hunger strike to protest further delays in his case and focus attention on his situation.
Demjanjuk is not "Ivan the Terrible," thus supporting his steadfast claim that he was a victim of mistaken identity, and overturned his 1988 death sentence.
The Demjanjuk case came full circle less than two months later, on November 17, when the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. prosecutors had perpetrated fraud on the court and "acted with reckless disregard for the truth" in their handling of the John Demjanjuk case.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1993/529315.shtml   (2979 words)

  
 The New American - Reforming Forfeiture Laws - October 4, 1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Demjanjuk's protracted ordeal began in 1977 when a Soviet-aligned newspaper identified the Ukrainian expatriate as a former guard at Sobibor, a World War II Nazi extermination camp in Poland.
That decision was not an unqualified victory for Demjanjuk.
Demjanjuk was Ivan of Treblinka and that even if he was not, it did not matter that the government had erroneously made that claim because Mr.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1993/vo09no20/vo09no20_demjanjuk.htm   (1831 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Demjanjuk will be back in the news because his attempts to deny his Nazi past and avoid final deportation from the US have been exhausted.
Demjanjuk was found guilty of the crimes of Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka in Israeli courts.
The proof John Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible are one and the same came in many forms, including eyewitness testimony and the original Nazi ID card that includes his photograph and signature.
www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=5363   (1524 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. judge strips Demjanjuk of citizenship - February 21, 2002
Demjanjuk -- who had been accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," the notorious guard at the Treblinka Nazi death camp in Poland -- has for years battled the government's efforts to oust him, and he may appeal the latest decision.
Demjanjuk was given 10 days to surrender his passport and other government documents.
Demjanjuk is free at the moment and is expected to appeal the decision.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/02/21/demjanjuk.citizenship   (503 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - John Demjanjuk fights new deportation attempt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CLEVELAND (AP) — John Demjanjuk, a former autoworker who once was sentenced to death in Israel and is accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, appeared in court Tuesday to fight the government's latest attempt to deport him.
Demjanjuk already has lost his U.S. citizenship, after a judge ruled in 2002 that documents from World War II prove he was a Nazi guard at various death or forced labor camps.
Demjanjuk walked into the courtroom with the assistance of his son, John Demjanjuk Jr., and former son-in-law, Ed Nishnic.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-11-29-demjanjuk-court_x.htm   (444 words)

  
 CNN.com - Son-in-law still seeks to clear Demjanjuk of Nazi allegations - Oct. 30, 2003
Demjanjuk has said, which is 'I'm not the person, and I was never there.' There's no logic to madness, and that whole period was a time when there was nothing but madness," Nishnic said.
In 1977, the Justice Department accused Demjanjuk of hiding his past as a guard who tortured and killed Jews even as they were forced into a gas chamber at the Treblinka camp in Poland.
Demjanjuk's cell when we didn't know which way the Supreme Court was going to go, and a crew was brought in to build a gallows," Nishnic said.
www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/10/30/demjanjuk.defender.ap   (979 words)

  
 John Demjanjuk: An Accused War Criminal on Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Cleveland trial of John Demjanjuk, the accused Nazi war criminal, ended in early June 2001, after attorneys for the Justice Department argued that Demjanjuk lied about his wartime activities and should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship.
A native of the Ukraine, the 81-year-old Demjanjuk is accused of hiding his involvement in the Holocaust.
In its complaint filed May 19, 1999, Justice charged that Demjanjuk was a member of the SS-run "Trawniki" unit that participated in the Nazi campaign of genocide.
www.adl.org /holocaust/demjanjuk.asp   (353 words)

  
 Court: Demjanjuk ineligible for citizenship - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
Demjanjuk, 84, who was born in Ukraine, insists that he was a prisoner during the war, not a guard.
Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-YAHN-yuk), who came to the United States in 1952 and lives in Seven Hills, was originally accused in 1977 by the Justice Department of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a particularly sadistic Nazi guard who ran the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in occupied Poland.
Demjanjuk, who insisted that he was the victim of mistaken identity, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was sentenced to be hanged in Israel.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4873227   (959 words)

  
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Demjanjuk lost his U.S. Citizenship after a judge ruled in 2002 that documents from World War II prove he was a Nazi guard at various death or forced labor camps.
Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel, convicted and sentenced to hang, but the Israeli Supreme Court found that someone else apparently was Ivan.
Demjanjuk returned to the United States and his U.S. citizenship was restored before being lifted again.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3191745,00.html   (294 words)

  
 FEDERAL COURT FINDS JOHN DEMJANJUK ASSISTED IN US Department of Justice - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As a Sobibor guard, Demjanjuk is only the second person to be prosecuted in the United States for having served at one of the four Nazi camps constructed solely to murder civilians.
Demjanjuk, 81, a retired auto worker, immigrated to the United States in 1952 by concealing this service, and became a naturalized citizen in 1958.
Demjanjuk is the 67th Nazi persecutor to be denaturalized since the Office of Special Investigations began operations in 1979.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_pjus/is_200202/ai_160554839   (521 words)

  
 U.S. Court Rules John Demjanjuk Was Nazi Guard
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 2002 decision by a Cleveland federal judge to strip 84-year-old retired autoworker John Demjanjuk of U.S. citizenship, saying the government proved he served as a guard in Nazi concentration camps.
After the war, the Ukranian-born Demjanjuk was sent to a displaced persons camp, where he worked briefly as a driver for the U.S. Army.
Demjanjuk was originally accused in 1977 by the Justice Department of being “Ivan the Terrible,”; a particularly sadistic Nazi guard who ran the gas chambers at Treblinka, but Demjanjuk insisted he was the victim of mistaken identity.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Demjanuk5.html   (458 words)

  
 Citizenship's return draws no protestors for John Demjanjuk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker tried as a Nazi deathcamp guard, had his U.S. citizenship restored -- 17 years after having it taken away in federal court.
Demjanjuk, 77, who was acquitted of being the infamous guard "Ivan the Terrible," was told by U.S. District Judge Paul R. Matia that the Justice Department lawyers "acted with reckless disregard for their duty to the court," concealing evidence that prohibited him from properly defending himself.
Reimer's existence was never made known to Demjanjuk, which could have cast doubt on the authenticity of a Trawniki identification card the Justice Department said belonged to Demjanjuk.
www.sunnews.com /news/suburbs/berea/1998/demjanjuk.htm   (405 words)

  
 The Crimes of the Department of Justice Permanent Bureaucracy: ``Reckless Disregard for the Truth'' -- The Case of John ...
Demjanjuk was wrongly identified as ``Ivan the Terrible'' from the death camp of Treblinka, a death camp where between the July 27, 1942 and August 2, 1943, 870,000 Jews were slaughtered.
Demjanjuk was tried in a theater hall, in the one and only ever televised case in the history of the land.
When Demjanjuk was extradited to the state of Israel, on February 28, 1986, the OSI told the Israeli prosecution that they did not have the original report of the proceedings that took place with Otto Horn in November 1979.
members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/sheftel.htm   (4618 words)

  
 OpinionEditorials.com — John Demjanjuk (or Ivan the Terrible), Ordered Out of the USA: Thirty Years to Send a Nazi ...
On August 25, 1977 the United States Justice Department began proceedings to strip John Demjanjuk, now 85, of his citizenship for forgetting to mention on his application to enter the USA the fact that he was a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
Demjanjuk was captured and that is where the problems come in: he says he served time in a camp; records say otherwise.
It is not just the nation losing Demjanjuk, but it is also the people that he guarded or tortured and even killed who are closing another long chapter of their lives and those that he stole life from are getting their revenge from the grave.
www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/syuhas_20051230.html   (801 words)

  
 John Demjanjuk
But Demjanjuk was freed of his death sentence several years later when evidence surfaced that he was the victim of mistaken identity.
And the judge who ruled that Demjanjuk was Ivan, Gilbert Merritt, now feels that Demjanjuk was conspiratorially deprived of his constitutional rights by the Federal Government's deliberate withholding of evidence in his favor.
One of the individuals primarily responsible for the original prosecution of Demjanjuk, OSI attorney Neal Sher, was disbarred after he was found embezzling from a Holocaust foundation.
www.nndb.com /people/327/000045192   (249 words)

  
 John Demjanjuk: Background synopsys
Two years ago today, 22 September 1993, John Demjanjuk was finally released from an Israeli jail and allowed to return home to Cleveland, Ohio after an 18 year ordeal.
Demjanjuk escorting prisoners in all phases, from the unloading of the trains to the entrance to the gas chamber."
One month before Demjanjuk was acquitted in Israel, the U. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals appointed U.S. District Judge Thomas Wiseman to investigate charges of misconduct by the O.S.I. Wiseman ruled the O.S.I. had played games with the evidence, but did not intentionally frame Demjanjuk.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/d/demjanjuk-john/synopsys-background.html   (2436 words)

  
 israelinsider: anti-Semitism: US Judge orders deportation of John Demjanjuk, suspected Nazi camp guard
John Demjanjuk, left, is helped as he arrives for a deportation hearing at the federal office building in Cleveland on Feb. 28, 2005.
An immigration judge ordered John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, deported to his native Ukraine, bringing him a step closer to being removed from the U.S. after a 30-year legal battle.
Demjanjuk, 85, has been fighting to stay in the United States since the 1970s.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/AntiSemi/7388.htm   (868 words)

  
 demanuk019.html
18.99 On July 29, 1993, John Demjanjuk was acquitted by the Israeli Supreme Court of the charge of being the sadistic Treblinka guard "Ivan the Terrible".
On a more personal level, he was motivated to take on the case because he was convinced that "the one and only purpose of this move was to conduct a special 'Israel-style' show trial, to teach Israeli children the story of the Holocaust and heighten Holocaust awareness among the public".
Paul Chumak of Toronto did a first-rate job as one of a team of Demjanjuk's lawyers and the late Jaroslaw Dobrowolskyj of Detroit played a crucial role in uncovering evidence which cleared John Demjanjuk.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/pakistan/83/demjanjuk/demanuk019.html   (1213 words)

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