John Demjanjuk is a retired auto worker and former, United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of Holocaust-related war crimes. Born in Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War (when territories in Ukraine quickly changed hands), Demjanjuk migrated to the United States in 1951. He was deported to Israel in 1986 and later sentenced to death there in 1988 for war crimes, based on his identification by Israeli Holocaust survivors as "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious SS guard at the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps during the period 1942–1943 who committed murder and acts of extraordinarily savage violence against camp prisoners. On 30 November 2009 Demjanjuk’s trial, expected to last for several months, began in Munich