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At least three million Soviet soldiers are believed by historians to have died in German prison camps, many of them left to starve. By 8:30 a.m. he was dead. A district court judge ruled that there was sufficient reliable evidence to prove that he had been a concentration camp guard, if not at Treblinka. A resident of Pepper Pike, he followed the local trials and called Demjanjuks oldest child, Lydia, to offer help. According to his New York Times obituary, Demjanjuk was born on April 3, 1920 in the Ukrainian village of Dubovye Makharintsy. John Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in Ukraine. It wasn't until May 2009 that Federal Immigration Agents picked him up from his house in a wheelchair, with a view to deporting him to Germany to stand trial. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. She spent two years as Hearst Digital Media's News Director, managing an international shared news desk. He had only learned the sweet, shy secretarys last name when he glanced at a piece of paper one day and saw the word after her first name: DEMJANJUK. The survivors said theyd seen the man in the photo at the death camp Treblinka, and that they believed he was the notorious Ivan the Terrible, a guard who reveled in brutalizing and then murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews. However, the Trawniki ID card helped sway judges in the prosecution's favour and in 1988 he was found guilty of crimes at Treblinka and sentenced to hang. But it wasnt until he and the man he often refers to as Mr. And when home, he was sensitive to his sons needs and wants. 1988: 'Ivan the Terrible' guilty of war crimes, Russia launches pre-dawn missile attack on Ukraine, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo dies, Air strikes pound Sudan capital as truce extended. What Happened To John Demjanjuk From Netflix's 'The Devil Next Door'? For JOhn Demjanjuks grandchildren, the man they call Dido, Ukranian for grandfather, is but a picture in a scrapbook, a face on the television screen, a voice on the phone every other Sunday.