Obituary Demjanjuk The defense said it was that Ivan who worked with the Nazis, not the Demjanjuk who came to Ohio. An expert on engines, he had operated the diesels that pumped out carbon monoxide to kill 870,000 people. John Demjanjuk This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Mar 24th 2012. WebVera Demajanjuk, 94 of Parma Ohio passed away Sunday September 22nd in Ohio. In the nearly seven decades since 250,000 people were put to death at Sobibor, no surviving witnesses, even those who had been shown photographs, could place him at the scene. Vera In 1942, the Germans wounded and captured him in the Crimea. Although sentenced to five years in prison, he was freed pending an appeal. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? He was credited with two years of pretrial detention, leaving three left to serve if an appeal failed. "'Oh, 'ma. He was conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1941 but was wounded and captured by the Germans a year later. Ivan Demjanjuk (pronounced (dem-YAHN-yook) was born on April 3, 1920, in Dubovye Makharintsy, a village in Ukraine, to impoverished, disabled parents. Some Holocaust survivors and federal agents suspected her husband was a Nazi prisoner-of-war guard nicknamed Ivan the Terrible. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. THOMAS J. SHEERAN July 28, 1993. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. A judge ordered his deportation based on his wartime past. "The U.S. government has marked Demjanjuk with the blood scent of Ivan the Terrible," his attorney, John Broadley, said at a hearing over his deportation. Mr. Demjanjuks trial in Israel included testimony from several Holocaust survivors who insisted that he was Ivan the Terrible, a sadistic gas-chamber operator at the Nazi extermination camp of Treblinka in Poland. Linda Demjanjuks 9-month-old daughter, Natalie, sat quietly during the service, fussing only once. John Demjanjuks wife and children shouted Youre liars! to prosecutors today after the defense rested in the former Ohio auto workers Nazi war crimes trial. The new case did not allege that he was Ivan the Terrible. He was headed for the airport and on to Germany. ", She said many have been sympathetic and "come to me and cry and feel sorry.". Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Demjanjuk's family can have the body returned to the United States, but it is unclear whether that will take place. He died nearly three years after being taken from his suburban home and flown overseas, a deportation ordered after U.S. judges ruled that he lied about his Nazi past when he entered the country in 1952 and that he was a guard at two concentration camps and a death camp in World War II. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. During the famine that afflicted Ukraine in 1932 and 33, his family moved to a collective farm outside Moscow. as well as other partner offers and accept our. He appealed, and the case was pending when Israel extradited him to stand trial as Ivan the Terrible. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Mr. Cortissos said his mother arrived on May 21, 1943, with 2,300 others, mostly Dutch Jews who were immediately sent to the gas chambers. John Demjanjuk was born Ivan Demjanjuk on April 3, 1920, in Debovye, Ukraine, The New York Times reported. The emotional trial, attended by many Holocaust survivors, led to an even more dramatic acquittal just a few years after he was sentenced to hang, when new evidence cast doubt on the accusations against him. You fight whole life, and you're stupid. The two, both natives of Ukraine during the Stalinist era of Soviet Russia, lived through famine and World War II.