Based on eyewitness testimony by Holocaust survivors in Israel, he was identified as the notorious Treblinka extermination camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible." Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986 for trial. In August 1977, Demjanjuk was accused of having been a Trawniki man. They settled in Seven Hills, Ohio, where he worked in an auto factory and raised three children. After the war he married a woman he met in a West German displaced persons camp, and emigrated with her and their daughter to the United States. He was recruited by the Germans and trained at Trawniki concentration camp, going on to serve at Sobibor extermination camp and at least two concentration camps. He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans in spring 1942. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in Germany as an accessory to 28,060 murders at Sobibor.īorn in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012) was a Ukrainian-American who served as 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 misidentified as Ivan the Terrible, a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp.
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