In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.

John Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka…