Demjanjuk biography

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (–)

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 – 17 March ) 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 s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In , the verdict was overturned.

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Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28, murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor.

Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans in spring , becoming a Trawniki collaborator.

After training, he se John Demjanjuk – Wikipedia RUJEB