John Demjanjuk, who has died aged 91, was a former Soviet peasant convicted in 1988 of war crimes, having been identified as the notorious Treblinka death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. On 14 November 1958, Demjanjuk became a naturalized citizen of the United States and legally changed his name from Ivan to John. Rosenberg approached and peered closely at Demjanjuk's face. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. After Jewish survivors viewing a photo spread identified Demjanjuk as serving at Treblinka near the gas chambers, however, US government officials instead pursued the Treblinka charges. [146] The prosecution further argued, using Pohl's testimony, that Demjanjuk's choice after being captured by the Germans was guard duty or forced labor, not death, the Trawniki guards were a privileged group that was essential to the Holocaust, and that Demjanjuk's failure to desert, something many Trawniki guards did, showed that he had been at Sobibor voluntarily. "I saw his eyes, I saw those murderous eyes", Rosenberg told the court, glaring at Demjanjuk. Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed. A critical piece of evidence was John Demjanjuk's Trawniki camp identification card, located in a Soviet archive. 44m. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in Germany as an accessory to 28,060 murders at Sobibor. About 300 inmates escaped the camp after the uprising; there are only 58 known survivors. This page was last edited on 29 March 2023, at 14:01. Historians say the pictures also show Niemann and other Nazi camp leaders leisurely having drinks around a table on a camp terrace on a hot summer afternoon, as well as Niemann on horseback, his eyes focused on train tracks as a deportation train is about to arrive. The photos chart Niemann's Nazi career, including places where disabled people were murdered, in the so-called T4 "euthanasia" programme, and the Sachsenhausen and Belzec camps. The accounts of 21 guards who were tried in the Soviet Union on war crimes gave details that differentiate Demjanjuk from Ivan the Terrible in particular that 'Ivan the Terrible's surname was Marchenko, not Demjanjuk. US officials had originally been aware, without informing Demjanjuk's attorneys, of the testimony of two of these German guards. [106] The complaint alleged that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibr and Majdanek camps in Poland under German occupation and as a member of an SS death's head battalion at Flossenbrg. [30] 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. [92], The judge's acquittal of Demjanjuk for being Ivan the Terrible was based on the written statements of 37former guards at Treblinka that identified Ivan the Terrible as "Ivan Marchenko". Demjanjuk was found guilty in 2011 of involvement in the murders of 28,000 Jews at Sobibor. [110] On 22 December 2006, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the deportation order. Erik Kirschbaum is a special correspondent. We believe it is probably Demanjuk in these pictures, historian Martin Cueppers said Tuesday at a news conference in Berlin as he presented a total of 50 pictures from the camp. Since the earlier witnesses were now deceased, the Munich court accepted that survivor testimony be read into the proceeding to facilitate findings of mass murder and determine the identity and citizenship of many of the victims. On Tuesday, the United States Holocaust . [99], After Demjanjuk's acquittal, the Israeli Attorney-General decided to release him rather than to pursue charges of committing crimes at Sobibor. "I say it unhesitatingly, without the slightest shadow of a doubt. [90] The judges agreed that Demjanjuk most likely served as a Nazi Wachmann (guard) in the Trawniki unit[88] and had been posted at Sobibor extermination camp and two other camps. Twisted history of John Demjanjuk An Ukranian 89-year-old will go on trial in Germany tomorrow over his alleged role in the deaths of more than 27,000 Jews during the Second World War. One month after the US Supreme Court's refusal to hear Demjanjuk's case, on 19 June 2008, Germany announced it would seek the extradition of Demjanjuk to Germany. The prosecution called expert witnesses to testify on the authenticity of the card including its signatures by various Nazi officers, paper, and ink. The Ukrainian was jailed in Munich in 2011 as a war criminal but died during the appeal process in 2012, aged 91. | Learn more about Mohsen Dadjoo's work . [72], Other controversial evidence included Demjanjuk's tattoo. [134] The indictment made almost no mention of Demjanjuk's service at Majdanek or Flossenbrg, as these were not extermination camps. But an investigation conducted in the 1990s by the US Office of Special Investigations found this to be a cover story. He was accused of murdering thousands of Jews at another Nazi camp, Treblinka, and identified as that camps notorious guard Ivan the Terrible. That conviction was overturned in 1993 when new evidence showed it to be a case of mistaken identity. [56] Writer Lawrence Douglas has called the case "the most highly publicized denaturalization proceeding in American history. Several Jewish survivors of Treblinka identified Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible, key evidence placing him at the killing center. Meanwhile, despite having the legal option, Israeli authorities declined to prosecute Demjanjuk for his activities at Sobibor, and prepared to release him. On 13 July 2009, prosecutors charged him with 27,900counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at Sobibor. Special correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky in Jerusalem contributed to this report. [132] Demjanjuk was tried without any connection to a concrete act of murder or cruelty, but rather on the theory that as a guard at Sobibor he was per se guilty of murder, a novelty in the German justice system that was seen as risky for the prosecution. Secondly, I use cognitive psychology to make therapy, design, and media more compelling. "[9][pageneeded] After the conviction, Demjanjuk was released pending appeal. [67], Demjanjuk was at first represented by attorney Mark J. O'Connor of New York State; Demjanjuk fired him in July 1987 just a week before he was scheduled to testify at his trial. [135], Demjanjuk was represented by German attorney Ulrich Busch and Gnther Maul. About 1.7 million Jews were murdered at Sobibor and two other camps in 1941-43. The existence of these statements alone, however, created sufficient reasonable doubt that Demjanjuk ever served at Treblinka, moving the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn Demjanjuk's conviction on July 29, 1993, without prejudice, signifying that the Israeli prosecution could choose to try Demjanjuk on charges related to other crimes. On 9 December 2008, a German federal court declared that Demjanjuk could be tried for his role in the Holocaust. The evidence placing him at Sobibor was consistent with the information on Demjanjuk's Trawniki identification card and with Danil'chenko's testimony. Moreover, after Demjanjuk's extradition to Israel, investigators at the OSI, while reviewing original personnel and administrative records from Flossenbrg, found references to Demjanjuk's name linked to his Trawniki military identification number (1393), thus independently corroborating Danil'chenko's testimony that Demjanjuk served at Flossenbrg. The pictures are also included in a new book, Photos From Sobibor, which was presented at Tuesdays news conference, held at the Topography of Terror, a museum on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. [19], Demjanjuk would later claim to have been drafted into the Russian Liberation Army in 1944. Grant testified that the document had been forged. The file on Demjanjuk was compiled by the German Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes. After a federal appeals court upheld this decision, OSI filed a deportation proceeding in December 2004. Germany later tried him for crimes at the Sobibor killing center. Demjanjuk appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which on 30 April 2004 ruled that Demjanjuk could be again stripped of his US citizenship because the Justice Department had presented "clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence" of Demjanjuk's service in Nazi death camps. Pending appeal, he was released from custody (see ' Court Finds Nazi Guard Guilty of Holocaust Deaths ', DW.de , 12 May 2011). [11] Having died before a final judgment on his appeal could be issued, under German law, Demjanjuk remains technically innocent. A widely published Associated Press photo caught . He was released pending the outcome of his appeal before his death the next year. The Berlin researchers identify Niemann and two fellow Nazis - Karl Ptzinger and Siegfried Graetschus - posing outside a T4 killing centre in Brandenburg, west of Berlin, in 1940. Such a proceeding became possible upon the discovery of internal Trawniki training camp personnel correspondence in the Archives of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow. The defense used some evidence supplied by the Soviets to support their case while calling other pieces of evidence supplied by the Soviets "forgeries". 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Born in Ukraine, John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serving as a collaboratorof the Nazi regime. The issuance of the stay by the immigration trial court was therefore improper, as that court had no jurisdiction over the matter. This was the first time someone has been convicted by a German court solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of being involved in the death of any specific inmate. [64] Despite initially attracting little attention, once survivor testimony began the trial became a "national obsession" and was followed widely throughout Israel. [73][74] Four of the survivors who had originally identified Demjanjuk's photograph had died before the trial began. The son of famed John Demjanjuk has dismissed the claim that newly emerged photos of the Sobibor death camp show his father performing duties as a guard. [59] Demjanjuk appealed his extradition; in a hearing on 8 July 1985, Demjanjuk's defense attorneys claimed that the evidence against him had been manufactured by the KGB,[60] that Demjanjuk was never at Treblinka, and that the court had no authority to consider Israel's request for extradition. The tattoo was likely a SS blood group tattoo given to him when he joined the Russian Liberation Army. Kirschbaum is a special correspondent. Guilty. Hundreds of thousands of pages of previously unknown documents became available to both the prosecution and the defense. Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. Those small people were the real criminals who facilitated the extermination of millions and millions of innocent people, innocent people who were placed in gas chambers. No wartime documentary evidence that definitively placed Demjanjuk at Treblinka has ever surfaced. meaning "Terrible" in Polish and Russian. Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 and was extradited to Israel, where he was convicted in 1988 of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. . As US authorities moved to deport Demjanjuk, the Israeli government requested his extradition. Though key to the American government's and the Israeli prosecution's case, the identity card did not place Demjanjuk in Treblinka, but rather as a guard at an SS estate in Okzw, near Chelm in September 1942, and as a guard at the Sobibor killing center from March 1943. Life for Nishnic is Babunya's basement. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. "[85], Demjanjuk further claimed that in 1944 he was drafted into an anti-Soviet Russian military organization, the Russian Liberation Army (Vlasov Army), funded by the Nazi German government, until the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies in 1945. Sheftel focused the defense largely on the claim that Demjanjuk's Trawniki card was a KGB forgery. The entire courtroom fell silent. [21], After the end of the war, Demjanjuk spent time in several displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany. After returning to Trawniki in August 1943, Marchenko transferred to Trieste, Italy, and disappeared towards the end of the war. [125] The Government argued that the Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction to review the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied the stay. The Devil Next Door, which comes to Netflix on Nov. 4, attempts to explain the allegations that surrounded Demjanjuk for the latter part of his life. Very little is known about it because there were so few survivors and hardly any images until now.. [166], In early June 2012, Ulrich Busch, Demjanjuk's attorney, filed a complaint with Bavarian prosecutors claiming that the pain medication Novalgin (known in the US as metamizole or dipyrone) that had been administered to Demjanjuk helped lead to his death. Just how he spent the wartime years has never been confirmed. In the records of the former Ukrainian KGB in Kiev, the Demjanjuk defense team found dozens of statements of former Treblinka guards whom Soviet authorities had tried in the early 1960s. As Chelm was Demjanjuk's alibi, he was questioned about this omission during the trial by both the prosecutors and the judges; Demjanjuk blamed the trauma of his POW experience and said he had simply forgotten. Based on eyewitness testimony by Holocaust survivors in Israel, he was identified as the notorious Treblinka extermination camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible. He maintained his innocence, claiming that it was a case of mistaken identity. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. Demjanjuk, 518 F.Supp. [94][96], Demjanjuk's acquittal was met with outrage in Israel, including threats against the justices' lives. John Demjanjuk (C) emerges from a Munich court after a judge sentenced him to 5 years in prison for charges related to 28,060 counts of accessory to murder on May 12, 2011, in Munich, Germany. [84] Demjanjuk also changed his testimony as to why he had listed Sobibor as his place of domicile from his earlier trials: he now claimed to have been advised to do so by an official of the United Nations Relief Administration to list a place in Poland or Czechoslovakia in order to avoid repatriation to the Soviet Union, after which another Soviet refugee waiting with him suggested Demjanjuk list Sobibor. Demjanjuk's denial related both to the supposed operation of a truck's diesel engine by "Ivan the Terrible" for the gas chamber at Treblinka and to the SS's singling out of Ukrainians with experience driving trucks as Trawniki men. But OSI's new director Allan Ryan chose to go ahead with the prosecution of Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible. [140] Demjanjuk arrived in the courtroom in a wheelchair pushed by a German police officer. [38], Given that eyewitnesses attested to Demjanjuk having been Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka, decades before, whereas documentary evidence seemed to indicate that he had served at Sobibor with little notoriety, OSI considered dropping the proceeding against Demjanjuk to focus on higher profile cases. Some facts of Demjanjuk's past are not in dispute. John Demjanjuk's defense claimed that the card was a Soviet-inspired forgery, despite several forensic tests that verified it as authentic. In 1986, an unassuming Cleveland grandfather and autoworker is accused of being Ivan the Terrible, a brutal Nazi death camp guard. They also show some of the buildings around the camp. 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. In July 2009, German prosecutors indicted Demjanjuk on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder at Sobibor. Demjanjuk returned to the United States, and his citizenship was restored in 1998. Little is known about the death camp, in part because the Nazis razed it in late 1943 after an uprising by about 600 inmates. Conscripted into the Soviet army, he was captured by German troops at the battle of Kerch in May 1942. Jewish organizations have opposed this, claiming that his burial site would become a center for neo-Nazi activity. Completed in 2020 in Tehran, Iran. Demjanjuk was convicted as an accessory to the murder of 27 900 Jews on 12 May 2011 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. [98] In Ukraine, Demjanjuk was viewed as a national hero and received a personal invitation to return to Ukraine by then-president Leonid Kravchuk. [163] On 28 June 2012, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that Demjanjuk could not regain his citizenship posthumously. [45][46] Five Holocaust survivors from Treblinka identified Demjanjuk as having been at Treblinka and having been "Ivan the Terrible. [122][123] On 10 April, the BIA found there was "little likelihood of success that [Demjanjuk's] pending motion to re-open the case will be granted" and accordingly denied his motion for a stay pending the disposition of his motion to reopen. [39] In 1979, three guards from Sobibor gave sworn depositions that they knew Demjanjuk to have been a guard there, and two identified his photograph. 44m. [83] Demjanjuk also denied having known how to drive a truck in 1943, despite having stated this on his application for refugee assistance in 1948; Demjanjuk alleged that he had not filled out the form himself and the clerk must have misunderstood him. Demjanjuk, then 67 years old, testified on his own behalf, claiming that he had spent most of the war as a POW in German captivity in a camp near Chelm, Poland. Take our quiz, We'll find you and we won't let you live a teams fight to exist, When a biryani flies hundreds of miles to reach Indians, The two generals fighting over Sudan's future, 'I thought we'd die' - Sudan patients cry for help, Why Gen Z workers are starting on the back foot. The investigation charged that OSI had ignored evidence indicating that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible, uncovered an internal OSI memo that questioned the case against Demjanjuk. Aps certo tempo, passou a servir ao lado dos nazistas . [102] Even before his acquittal by the Israeli Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had opened an investigation into whether OSI had withheld evidence from the defense. Nevertheless, blood-type tattooing was never consistently implemented. On 19 May 2008, the US Supreme Court denied Demjanjuk's petition for certiorari, declining to hear his case against the deportation order. [94] However the Israeli justices noted that Demjanjuk had incorrectly listed his mother's maiden name as "Marchenko" in his 1951 application for US visa. This removed any obstacles to federal agents seizing him for deportation to Germany. [76] Through Baltic migr supporters living in Washington DC, the defense was also able to acquire internal OSI notes that had been thrown in a dumpster without shredding that showed that Otto Horn had in fact had difficulty identifying Demjanjuk and had been prompted to make the identification. He had appealed the conviction. [139] On 30 November 2009, Demjanjuk's trial, expected to last for several months, began in Munich. He had said he was actually a Nazi victim himself - a prisoner of war. [164][165] On 11 September 2012, the court denied Demjanjuk's request to have the appeal reheard en banc by the full court. Rosenberg then exclaimed directly to Demjanjuk: "How dare you put out your hand, murderer that you are! Hence this physical evidence only suggested, but by no means proved, that Demjanjuk might have served as a concentration camp guard. Demjanjuk was a gentle old man who'd bounce O' Connor 's 3-year-old daughter on his knee, smiling and talking nonsense. TTY: 202.488.0406, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. The authenticity of the Trawniki card was affirmed by US government experts who examined the original document as well as by Wolfgang Scheffler of the Free University of Berlin during the hearing,[42][43] Scheffler also testified to the crimes committed by Trawniki men and that it was possible that Demjanjuk had been moved between Sobibor and Treblinka. Robert Cohen, joint plaintiff in the trial against accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk shows a tattoo he got in the death camp. Here are 22 essential L.A. spots for every tourist, Column: We cant afford another writers strike. [78] During the trial, Demjanjuk was again identified on the photo spread by Otto Horn, a former German SS guard at Treblinka. [25], Demjanjuk found a job as a driver in a displaced persons camp in the Bavarian city of Landshut, and was subsequently transferred to camps in other southern German cities, until ending up in Feldafing near Munich in May 1951. Assuming the pictures reveal something real, as they appear, it just adds another layer of knowledge in the open account we have with anyone who commits horrors against other human beings.. Though the card contained some information that was inconsistent with the testimony of the Treblinka survivors, it was the only document available that placed Demjanjuk at Trawniki as a police auxiliary (that is, in the pool of auxiliaries from which Treblinka guards were selected). [66] According to prosecutors, Demjanjuk had been recruited into the Soviet army in 1940, and had fought until he was captured by German troops in Eastern Crimea in May 1942. [112][113] The Supreme Court's denial of review meant that the order of removal was final; no other appeal was possible. Washington, DC 20024-2126 [75] The testimony of one of these witnesses, Pinhas Epstein, had been barred as unreliable in US denaturalization trial of former camp guard Feodor Fedorenko,[74] while another, Gustav Boraks, sometimes appeared confused on the stand. [150] He would, however, deliver three written declarations to the court that alleged that his prosecution was caused by a conspiracy between the OSI, the World Jewish Congress, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, while continuing to allege that the KGB had forged the documents used. John Demjanjuk, 89, the man prosecutors say herded naked men, women and children to their fate at the Sobibor death camp has arrived in court for the trial for the WWII murder of 27,900 Jews. [121] As the Government noted, a motion to reopen, such as Demjanjuk's, could only properly be filed with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C., and not an immigration trial court. [142], On 14 April 2010, Anton Dallmeyer, an expert witness, testified that the typeset and handwriting on an ID card being used as key evidence matched four other ID cards believed to have been issued at the SS training camp at Trawniki. During this trial, the evidence implicating Demjanjuk rested not on survivor testimony, but on wartime documentation of his service at Sobibor. So in a way, the pictures are meaningless. John Demjanjuk, 91, Dogged by Charges of Atrocities as Nazi Camp Guard, Dies By Robert D. McFadden March 17, 2012 The stranger settled in Cleveland after World War II with his wife and little. [58] The appeals court found probable cause that Demjanjuk "committed murders of uncounted numbers of prisoners" and allowed the extradition to take place. Demjanjuk remained in Flossenburg for over a year, then saw service in a Vlassov Army unit. Most of the guards were executed after the war by the Soviets,[93] and their written statements were not obtained by Israeli authorities until 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. "[5] Although the judges agreed that there was sufficient evidence to show that Demjanjuk had served at Sobibor, Israel declined to prosecute. [88] The former guards' statements were obtained after World WarII by the Soviets, who prosecuted USSR citizens who had assisted the Nazis as auxiliary forces during the war. "Nazi perpetrators eager to seize the initiative, such as Niemann in Belzec, were invested with an astonishing freedom of action, which they used to develop and try out new methods of killing," Dr Cppers said. There, he raised a family and lived an unremarkable life until 1975, when he found himself on a list of American citizens believed to have once been Nazi guards. An Israeli court sentenced Demjanjuk to death in 1988, but the verdict was overturned by Israel's Supreme Court in 1993 because of doubts about his identity. He had spent decades working as. : John Demjanjuk: 1920 43 - 2012 317 Proceedings in the United States twice stripped him of his American citizenship and ordered him deported. [158], John Demjanjuk died at a home for the elderly in Bad Feilnbach, Germany on 17 March 2012, aged 91. He was 91 years old. Read about our approach to external linking. The trial against him - one of the last major Nazi trials - was . [51], Demjanjuk's defense was supported by the Ukrainian community and various Eastern European migr groups; Demjanjuk's supporters alleged that he was the victim of a communist conspiracy and raised over two million dollars for his defense. He was assigned to a manorial estate called Okzow on 22 September 1942, but returned to Trawniki on 14 October. [91]The Trawniki certificate also implied that Demjanjuk had served at Sobibor, as did the German orders of March 1943 posting his Trawniki unit to the area. John Demjanjuk, original name Ivan Demjanjuk, (born April 3, 1920, Makharintsy, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.died March 17, 2012, Bad Feilnbach, Germany), Ukrainian-born autoworker who was accused of being a Nazi camp guard during World War II. [94] Central to the new evidence was a photograph of Ivan the Terrible and a description that did not match the 1942 appearance of Demjanjuk. [40], The proceeding opened with the prosecution calling historian Earl F. Ziemke, who reconstructed the situation on the Eastern Front in 1942 and showed that it would have been possible for Demjanjuk to have been captured at the Battle of Kerch and arrive in Trawniki that same year. The German case set an important precedent and led to subsequent prosecutions in Germany that are continuing more than 70 years after the Holocaust. John Demjanjuk, convicted of one of the worst crimes in modern history, has sat in jail for more than six years waiting to die. [18] According to German records, Demjanjuk most likely arrived at Trawniki concentration camp to be trained as a camp guard for the Nazis on 13 June 1942. [48] In 1982, Demjanjuk was jailed for 10 days after failing to appear for a hearing. The following census in 2011 counted 389,102 people in 112,487 households. Demjanjuk was only the second person to be tried for these charges in Israel. [69][70] The defense claimed that the card was forged by Soviet authorities to discredit Demjanjuk. 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