The World - News from May 10, 1988
John Demjanjuk will appeal his conviction and death sentence for Nazi war crimes by next month, and Israel’s Supreme Court will hear the case beginning Dec. 5, court spokesman Shmaryahu Cohen said in Jerusalem. Cohen said that the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk has until June 10 to file the appeal but that his lawyers can request an extension. Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio auto worker, was sentenced to death April 25 after he was convicted of being the brutal guard “Ivan the Terrible” who operated gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Poland, where 850,000 Jews were killed.
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