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...show the world that we have changed and that it's not going to happen again." - Susanne Ehard, a 20-year-old German, on why Germany has sought Demjanjuk's extradition. (Cleveland Jewish News, March...
...sobriquet by ushering thousands of prisoners - sometimes hacking them with a sword as they passed - into the gas chambers at Poland's Treblinka death camp. After the war, he vanished. Decades later, in the late 1970s, U.S. authorities fingered a suspect: John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker residing in a Cleveland suburb...
...After living in Bavaria immediately following World War II, Demjanjuk emigrated to the U.S. and settled in Cleveland. He toiled unremarkably until 1977, when evidence that he may have served as a Nazi guard sparked an investigation into his past. In 1981 an Ohio court ruled that Demjanjuk was indeed an escaped Nazi war criminal and stripped him of his citizenship. 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 process by which Demjanjuk was identified was legally flawed...
...type of consumer credit are likely to be faced with more losses, even if they are unexpected. That seems possible since all of the bank losses of the last two years were unanticipated, at least according to the managements at the companies. (See pictures of unemployment in Cleveland...
...that were living pretty independently, doing pretty well. And, through just one event, it was, like, a domino effect - if one part of the puzzle breaks off, then everything breaks off," says Michael Levine, who coordinates social work programs for Hillsborough, Fla.'s 206,000-student school system. (See Cleveland's woes amid the current foreclosure crisis...