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Article: `Ivan' sentenced to die // He shouts innocence in killing of Jews
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 26, 1988
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JERUSALEM John Demjanjuk, convicted last week of killing
thousands of Jews at a Nazi concentration camp in World War II,
emotionally declared his innocence and then sat stoically as he was
sentenced Monday to be hanged for war crimes.
"I am innocent," the man convicted as the death camp guard "Ivan
the Terrible" shouted in Hebrew in an Israeli court during a
seven-minute plea to spare him the death sentence.
But a voice from among the spectators in the packed courtroon
retorted "You are a liar," and cheers and applause erupted at the
close of proceedings before the three-judge panel.
Holocaust survivors and teenagers wept. Some people recited
prayers. Others chanted "bravo" and ...