Word: demjanjuk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...former Nazi who Ryan prosecuted, a Cleveland autoworker named John Demjanjuk, turned out to be the infamous Ivan the Terrible, a guard at the death camp in Treblinka, Poland...
...interviewing survivors and procuring evidence that included an identification card from Trawniki, where the Nazi SS trained death camp guards, Ryan identified Demjanjuk as Ivan. He was sure he had the right man. Perhaps too sure. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," Ryan wrote in his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
Ryan's office successfully revoked Demjanjuk's citizenship, and in 1986, Demjanjuk was deported to Israel to stand trial. Demjanjuk now sits on death row, awaiting the results of his appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court...
...Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, went on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ryan and accused the Harvard attorney of supressing crucial evidence in order to "frame" his client. Ryan denied that charge then and he denies...
...evidence, however, planted the seeds of doubt in the minds of the judges of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Last year, they appointed Tennessee judge Thomas A. Wiseman to conduct an investigation of Office of Special Investigations' handling of the Demjanjuk case...