A U.S. Immigration Court judge has ordered the expulsion of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born retired auto worker whose U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1981 after he was found guilty of having lied about his collaboration with the Nazis when he entered the U.S. 30 years earlier.
Demjanjuk, who claimed when he came to the U.S. in 1951 that he had been a draftee in the German army during World War II, was identified as a former guard at the Treblinka death camp where he was involved in the torture and death of thousands of Jews. His brutality caused him to be known as “Ivan the Terrible” among camp inmates.
Judge Adolph Angelelli ordered Demjanjuk to leave the U.S. voluntarily within 30 days or face deportation to the Soviet Union. The order, issued on May 23, was made public last night. Demjanjuk’s lawyer, Mark O’Connor, said the order would be appealed. Immigration Service officials are proceeding in Federal Court with a separate request by Israel for Demjanjuk’s extradition.
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