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An Ohio man accused by German officials of Nazi war crimes is set to be held by US authorities ahead of his deportation to Germany, his lawyer says.An Ohio man accused by German officials of Nazi war crimes is set to be held by US authorities ahead of his deportation to Germany, his lawyer says.
John Demjanjuk, 89, is accused being an accessory to the deaths of some 29,000 people at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in World War II.John Demjanjuk, 89, is accused being an accessory to the deaths of some 29,000 people at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in World War II.
His family have claimed that Mr Demjanjuk, who is bed-ridden, is too unwell to be deported.His family have claimed that Mr Demjanjuk, who is bed-ridden, is too unwell to be deported.
Lawyers for Mr Demjanjuk have filed an appeal against the deportation order.Lawyers for Mr Demjanjuk have filed an appeal against the deportation order.
Mr Demjanjuk, a native Ukrainian, denies the charges against him, claiming that he was captured by the Germans during the war and kept as a prisoner of war.
He arrived in the US in 1952 as a refugee, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in the automobile industry.
In 1988, Mr Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in Israel for crimes against humanity after Holocaust survivors identified him as the notorious "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka death camp.
Israel's highest court later overturned his sentence and freed him, after newly unearthed documents from the former Soviet Union indicated that "Ivan the Terrible" had probably been a different man.