THE NATION - News from April 7, 2009
A U.S. immigration judge revoked John Demjanjuk’s stay of deportation, clearing the way for him to be returned to Germany nearly three decades after officials first alleged he was a guard at a Nazi death camp.
Demjanjuk, 89, who lives near Cleveland, is accused in a German arrest warrant of 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943.
He has denied involvement in any deaths.
His son, John Demjanjuk Jr., says an appeal will be filed in Falls Church, Va., at the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Demjanjuk, a native of Ukraine, came to the U.S. after World War II as a refugee. He is seeking to remain because of poor health and says being forced to travel to Germany would amount to torture.
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