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World Jewish News
Demjanjuk removed from home for deportation
14.04.2009
Immigration officials removed John Demjanjuk from his home for deportation to Germany.
Family members told media they were caught unaware Tuesday afternoon when a van arrived to remove the former death camp guard from his suburban Cleveland home. One report said the ailing 89-year old was removed on a stretcher. CNN broadcast images of a white van headed for Cleveland's airport.
In recent months, Germany has sought his extradition on charges related to the deaths of 29,000 Jews.
An Israeli court convicted Demjanjuk in 1988 of being the ruthless "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp. In 1993, Israel's Supreme Court dismissed the charges and freed Demjanjuk because he could not be positively identified as "Ivan."
The latter ruling upheld evidence that Demjanjuk had been a guard at another death camp, Sobibor, but reasoned that he had already served the sentence for that crime - seven years - waiting out the "Ivan" charges.
Demjanjuk returned to the Cleveland area and U.S. courts subsequently stripped him of his citizenship because he had lied about being a death camp guard. He and his family have appealed those orders for years.
Источник: JTA
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