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John Demjanjuk

1920 - 2012

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John Demjanjuk (Ukrainian: Джон Дем'янюк), born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk (Ukrainian: Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк), was a Trawniki and Nazi camp 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 extermination camp. In 1993, the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28,060 murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Demjanjuk is the 286th most popular military personnel (up from 311th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

John Demjanjuk is most famous for being falsely accused of being the Nazi death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible."

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Demjanjuk ranks 286 out of 2,058. Before him are Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Sun Bin, Alvin York, Omar Bradley, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and Otto Liman von Sanders. After him are Hasso von Manteuffel, Italo Gariboldi, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Titus Labienus, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Maurice Benyovszky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, John Demjanjuk ranks 42. Before him are Zecharia Sitchin, Sun Myung Moon, Clarice Lispector, Peter D. Mitchell, C. R. Rao, and Mario Beccaria. After him are Walter Matthau, Prem Tinsulanonda, Douglass North, Ben Ferencz, Baruj Benacerraf, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Among people deceased in 2012, John Demjanjuk ranks 38. Before him are Carlos Fuentes, William Standish Knowles, Sun Myung Moon, Antonio Tabucchi, Robin Gibb, and Kiro Gligorov. After him are Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Antoni Tàpies, Carroll Shelby, Benzion Netanyahu, Mike Wallace, and Ravi Shankar.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, John Demjanjuk ranks 99 out of 1,365. Before him are Karl Radek (1885), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Clarice Lispector (1920), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), and Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939). After him are Alexander Archipenko (1887), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), and Ivan Paskevich (1782).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, John Demjanjuk ranks 5. Before him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Nestor Makhno (1888), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), and Semyon Timoshenko (1895). After him are Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Alfred Redl (1864).

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