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The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

Historical image related to The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. from November 26, 1986

John Demjanjuk

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)

John Demjanjuk, born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk, 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…
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Treblinka extermination camp

Nazi extermination camp in Poland (1942–1943)

Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, four kilometres south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp…
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Jerusalem

City in the Southern Levant

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Both Israel…
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November 26

Day of the year

November 26 is the 330th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 35 days remain until the end of the year.
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