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Ivan the Terrible" (born 1911) is the nickname given to a notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp during the Holocaust. The moniker alluded to Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible , the infamous tsar of Russia .
He was accused not only of being a Trawniki man during the war but of being the most notorious of all Trawniki men – Ivan the Terrible. After extradition to Israel, he faced trial accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
May 2, 2024 · In the 1970s Demjanjuk was investigated by U.S. officials after Holocaust survivors identified him as “Ivan the Terrible,” a Nazi guard who operated the gas chambers at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. In 1981 a U.S. court revoked his citizenship.
Mar 18, 2012 · Demjanjuk, stripped of his citizenship in 1981, was deported to Israel, where witnesses and an identity card of “Ivan the Terrible,” a sadist who had murdered thousands of Jews at Treblinka, had...
Mar 25, 2009 · Israeli police, acting on a tip from U.S. immigration officials, found several Treblinka survivors who identified Demjanjuk as the notorious Ivan the Terrible. (Some have argued that the...
Dec 4, 2019 · The varied perspectives include those of the Holocaust survivors who testified at Demjanjuk's trial in Jerusalem in the late '80s and were painfully certain he was the “Ivan the Terrible” who tortured Jews in their final moments at Treblinka; the prosecutors who believed them and were dedicated to bringing him to justice; Demjanjuk’s ...
Nov 6, 2019 · Whether Ivan the Terrible was Demjanjuk or Marchenko, it is clear the Ivan the Terrible guard at Treblinka left his mark on the heartbroken victims who live with the scars he inflicted on their...
Nov 6, 2019 · While investigating another person on the list, Holocaust survivors recognized Demjanjuk's ID photo from that era and said he was "Ivan the Terrible," a notoriously cruel guard who operated...
Dec 21, 1991 · The accounts of 21 guards who were tried in the Soviet Union on war crimes gave details that differentiate Demjanjuk from Ivan the Terrible--mostly that the last name of Ivan was Marchenko.
Jul 29, 1993 · To the surprise of Israeli investigators, who had assumed Demjanjuk to have been an ordinary concentration or death camp guard, Treblinka survivors had identified him as “Ivan the Terrible,”...
