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John (Ivan) Demanjuk was born in the Ukraine on April 3, 1920, he applied for admission to the United States as a displaced person, a d.p., in 1951, he gained entry to the U.S. in 1952, he married another d.p. and settled in Seven Hills, a suburb of Cleveland. He gained employment at a nearby Ford Plant and eventually retired with a good pension. His problems began when the U.S. Justice Department decided that he had gained admittance to the U.S. and U.S. Citizenship under false pretences, that he had worked in the Nazi Death Camps. The Israelis decided that Demjanjuk was actually the infamous "Ivan Grozny," Ivan the Terrible, who had operated the gas chamber at Treblinka forcing the Jews in to their deaths with a whip or sword, always drunk as he did this. Israel requested Demjanjuk's deportation to stand trial and he was deported on February 28, 1986. During his trial many old, tortured people claimed yes, this is Ivan the Terrible. Not looking very hard for the truth Israel sentenced Demjanjuk to be hung. I was a member of Amnesty International at this time and would crank out 3 letters a week to get people out of foreign prisons, I wrote the President and 4 Senators that the Israelis certainly hadn't proven that Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible in a trial that the "Cleveland Plain Dealercalled a "Kangaroo Court." Demjanjuk was held in prison awaiting his execution from April, 1988 to August,1993. During this time "60 Minutes" and other U.S. News People actually investigated by going to the area around Treblinka and finding people who remembered this guy well, there were farmers who were his drinking buddies who also knew him as Ivan the Terrible, there was ha,ha, an old woman who was the innkeeper's wife whose husband had sold her service to Ivan for gold taken from the Jews. They remembered his name as Marchenko, they said he was dark unlike the light Demjanjuk, that he had big lips unlike Demjanjuk, that he was half a head shorter than Demjanjuk, that he was 10 years older than Demjanjuk. I wrote my letters before all this investigation saying that the Israelis got everything they wanted even to the extent of this foolishness. Having the Truth shoved in their face that they had the wrong man, the Israelis freed Demjanjuk to the U.S. and Demjanjuk had his citizenship restored in 1998 but it was stripped away again in 2004 as the U.S. Justice Department decided that Demjanjuk was Ivan the not so Terrible, a Wachmann, guard, who walked the barbed wire, this is what he probably was. I've been to Auschwitz and nearby Birkenau and was in the basement at Auschwitz where the Zyclon-B gas was first tested on 600 Russian Prisoners of War, it was creepy being down there by myself imagining these guys writhing and clawing the walls. The Nazis were very cruel, Americans used to be thought of as the good guys, that they were above torture such as almost drowning people. A friend of mine a couple years ago said that if Bush thought this Iraq thing was so good why didn't he send his daughters over there as they've been of enlistment age throughout this debacle, then he entailed what their duties might be. Demjanjuk is appealing the taking away of his U.S. Citizenship, in 2005 he was ordered deported to the Ukraine and this is also under appeal, in 2008 Germany requested that Demjanjuk be deported there to stand trial for working in the Death Camps. John Demjanjuk is "87" and over the past twenty years has been sentenced to death , imprisoned and persecuted----Why not just leave the Old Man alone?