Why has he Nazi death camp Sobibor been in the news lately?
Ludwigsburg, Germany – Investigators hope to put alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan John Demjanjuk on trial as officials of the German central office for solving Nazi crimes Monday handed over the results of their preliminary investigation to prosecutors. The head of the office, Kurt Schrimm, said he hopes prosecutors in Munich will seek extradition of 88-year-old Demjanjuk from the United States, where he emigrated in the 1950s and worked in the car industry. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is accused of having having participated in the murder of at least 29,000 European Jews at the death camps in Sobibor and Treblinka, Poland, during World War II. US authorities extradited him to Israel in 1986 after his alleged role in the Holocaust became known in the 1970s. He was accused of crimes committed at the Treblinka death camp, where he got the nickname Ivan the Terrible for his alleged crimes. Demjanjuk was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1988, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the v
A man, John Demjanjuk, who was a guard at the Sobibor camp, has been accused of being an accessory in the murder of 29,000 Jews while working at the Sobibor death camp in eastern Poland. Demjanjuk is now 89, and his guilt will be decided in a Munich courtroom, assuming he lives long enough and is deemed fit to stand trial. After the war, Mr. Demjanjuk moved to the United States, where he became an autoworker and raised a family. But in 1977, several Holocaust survivors identified him as Ivan the Terrible. oworker and raised a family. But in 1977, several Holocaust survivors identified him as Ivan the Terrible. Mr. Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death by an Israeli court in 1988. But he has had numerous appeals and there has been no resolution so far. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/world/europe/13german.html?
