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(Monday, April 18, 1988, 8:00 p.m. Israel Daylight Time) — An Israeli court today convicted John Demjanjuk, a 68-year-old retired auto worker from Cleveland identified by Holocaust survivors as “Ivan the Terrible,” of committing war crimes at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

In 1993, Israel’s Supreme Court would overturn Demjanjuk’s conviction based on new evidence that cast reasonable doubt over the identity of “Ivan the Terrible.”

In 2011, Demjanjuk was convicted by an ordinary German criminal court as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland but that conviction was annulled after Demjanjuk died before his appeal could be heard.

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