Share
Email
PrintStay of deportation denied for accused Nazi
NEW YORK (JTA) -- A U.S. appeals court denied a stay of deportation for accused Nazi prison guard John Demjanjuk.
Pending further appeals, the ruling Friday by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio opens to the door for the 89-year-old Demjanjuk's deportation to Germany, where he will stand trial for charges related to his alleged stint as a guard at the Sobibor death camp. Demnjanjuk denies he was a guard at the camp.
Demjanjuk claimed that he was too sick to be deported, but the court rejected that claim.
In 1988, Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in Israel after survivors identified him as the notorious Treblinka guard known as "Ivan the Terrible," a conviction that Israel's high court later overturned.
Click to login and write a letter to the editor or sign up for the Daily Briefing.
Ben Harris is a staff writer for JTA who covers American Jewish life and is author of The Wandering Jew blog (blogs.JTA.org/wanderingjew).
This article was made possible by the support of readers like you. Donate to JTA now.
Featured Content
Need to know? Get JTA's free e-newsletters!
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
