John Demjanjuk hearing his death sentence. Credit: Israel government press office.

John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship, extradited to Germany and then convicted of being involved in the murder of more than 28,000 people in the Holocaust, has died at the age of 91.
Demjanjuk lived in a German nursing home while an appeal was underway for his conviction. He was allowed to stay there even though a judge had sentenced him to five years in prison. His relatives, who still live in the U.S., have maintained his innocence and called it a case of mistaken identity. However, experts said an identity card proved he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp.
The Jerusalem Post wrote in an editorial that the Demjanjuk case “underlines the limits of justice,” as he died in a nursing home rather than a prison cell.
“Understandably, many — particularly Holocaust survivors — were disappointed by Demjanjuk’s ability to avoid justice,” the newspaper wrote.
—JointMedia News Service