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- The new evidence indicates that although Demjanjuk was a concentration camp guard, he was never in Treblinka and he is not "Ivan the Terrible." The evidence comes from testimony by 21 Ukrainian guards at Treblinka who were captured in the 1940s and 1950s and executed as Nazi war criminals.
www.tampabay.com › archive › 1991/12/22Was John Demjanjuk really "Ivan the Terrible?' - Tampa Bay Times
Several Jewish survivors of Treblinka identified Demjanjuk as “Ivan the Terrible,” key evidence placing him at the killing center. Trawniki Training Camp. A critical piece of evidence was John Demjanjuk's Trawniki camp identification card, located in a Soviet archive.
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In 1993 the verdict was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court, based on new evidence that cast reasonable doubt over his identity as Ivan the Terrible. [6] Although the judges agreed that there was sufficient evidence to show that Demjanjuk had served at Sobibor, Israel declined to prosecute.
Some of the exculpatory evidence that led to Demjanjuk's release in 1993 had come to light years before and was deliberately withheld from the Israelis by the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of the US Department of Justice, which had urged Israel to charge him with being Ivan the Terrible.
Nov 8, 2019 · The same trove of documents included evidence of Nazis sending the man identified as Demjanjuk to work as a guard at Sobibor, a camp near Treblinka, where Ivan the Terrible worked.
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Mar 25, 2009 · Fast Facts: • A native Ukrainian, John (né Ivan) Demjanjuk has said he was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940 and captured by the Nazis in 1942. The following three years are up for debate....
Jan 29, 2020 · Accused of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a sadistic guard who beat and tortured camp prisoners, according to survivor testimony, Demjanjuk was found guilty and sentenced to death. The Israeli...
Jul 4, 2022 · It was discovered that Ivan the Terrible was actually named Marchenko not Demjanjuk. A picture of him surfaced, where a guard had identified himself with Ivan, and it showed a marked difference between John and Ivan.
