[87] Demjanjuk was placed in solitary confinement during the appeals process. The point is that the Majdanek and Flossenbürg deployments are better documented, as they include details such as Demjanjuk's punishment for indulging his appetite for "salt and onions" during a typhus lockdown at Majdanek, and the serial numbers of his rifle and bayonet at Flossenbürg. [152], On 12 May 2011, aged 91, Demjanjuk was convicted as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at Sobibor killing center and sentenced to five years in prison with two years already served. He previously served as a board member and coach with the Tewksbury soccer and basketball leagues, a youth and high school soccer referee, and an elected town library Trustee. "I say it unhesitatingly, without the slightest shadow of a doubt. [173] In 2019, German prosecutors charged guards at a concentration camp - as opposed to a death camp - on the same rationale for the first time: former Stutthof concentration camp guards Johann Rehbogen and Bruno Dey. [37] While the government was preparing for trial, Hanusiak published pictures of an ID card identifying Demjanjuk as having been a Trawniki man and guard at Sobibor in News from Ukraine. [94] Central to the new evidence was a photograph of Ivan the Terrible and a description that did not match the 1942 appearance of Demjanjuk. The motion sought to reopen the matter of the removal order against him; that order of removal had been originally issued by an immigration court in 2005, had been upheld by the BIA on administrative appeal in late 2006,[111] and was further upheld by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; after these two appeals, the US Supreme Court had, as noted above, denied any review. Beus Gilbert PLLC 701 N. 44th Street Phoenix, AZ 85008-6504 (480) 429-3019 www.beusgilbert.com "[148] As Nagorny had previously identified Demjanjuk from his US visa application photo, his inability to recognize Demjanjuk in the courtroom was seen as unimportant. [76] The most important of these was Eliyahu Rosenberg. Upon his arrival, he was arrested and sent to Munich's Stadelheim prison. Discover Mark O'Connor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. He lived at a German nursing home in Bad Feilnbach,[10] where he died on 17 March 2012. He was transferred to Majdanek concentration camp, where he was disciplined on 18 January 1943. [99], After Demjanjuk's acquittal, the Israeli Attorney-General decided to release him rather than to pursue charges of committing crimes at Sobibor. Super Lawyers is a designation of top-rated practicing attorneys selected through extensive evaluation. As Chelm was Demjanjuk's alibi, he was questioned about this omission during the trial by both the prosecutors and the judges; Demjanjuk blamed the trauma of his POW experience and said he had simply forgotten. [157][158] His release pending appeal was protested by some, including Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. that Demjanjuk was extradited from the United States specifically to stand trial for offenses attributed to Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, and not for other alternative charges. [103] After Demjanjuk's acquittal in Israel, the panel of judges on the Sixth Circuit ruled against OSI for having committed fraud on the court and having failed to provide exculpatory evidence to Demjanjuk's defense. Mark C. O’Connor was named Massachusetts Super Lawyer in 2005 and 2006 for business litigation, according to Super Lawyers, a joint publication of Boston Magazine and Law & Politics. Mark O'Connor was born on 5 August, 1961 in Seattle, WA. [101], Demjanjuk was released to return to the United States. [112] On 3 April 2009, US Immigration Judge Wayne Iskra temporarily stayed Demjanjuk's deportation,[120] but reversed himself three days later, on 6 April. [107], In February 2002, Judge Matia revoked Demjanjuk's US citizenship. [60] Demjanjuk was deported to Israel on 28 February 1986. Age, Biography and Wiki. for a fantastic evening of music, stories, and more. [48] Demjanjuk subsequently requested political asylum in the United States rather than deportation. Later, he joined Henly Business School and completed his education from there. On 18 August 1993, the court rejected the petitions on the grounds that, During the trial, the prosecution argued that Demjanjuk should be tried for crimes at Sobibor; however, Justice Aharon Barak was not convinced, stating "We know nothing about him at Sobibor". One month after the US Supreme Court's refusal to hear Demjanjuk's case, on 19 June 2008, Germany announced it would seek the extradition of Demjanjuk to Germany. [76], On 18  April 1988, the Jerusalem District Court found Demjanjuk "unhesitatingly and with utter conviction" guilty of all charges and being Ivan the Terrible. [82], Demjanjuk testified during the trial that he was imprisoned in a camp in Chełm until 1944, when he was transferred to another camp in Austria, where he remained until he joined an anti-Soviet Ukrainian army group. [121] As the Government noted, a motion to reopen, such as Demjanjuk's, could only properly be filed with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C., and not an immigration trial court. [72], The prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of Holocaust survivors to establish that Demjanjuk had been at Treblinka, five of whom were put on the stand. He was sent back to Trawniki and on 26 March 1943 he was assigned to Sobibor concentration camp. Attorney O'Connor graduated from Williams College in 1982 and Suffolk University Law School in 1986. [126] Demjanjuk later won a last-minute stay of deportation, shortly after US immigration agents carried him from his home in a wheelchair to face trial in Germany. [58] Demjanjuk appealed his extradition with the case heard on 8 July 1985. Mark and his team have achieved multi-million dollar settlements in common law litigation conducted throughout Queensland. O'Connor, a former U.S. attorney now in private practice, adds to Felt's writings and recollections. [21], After the end of the war, Demjanjuk spent time in several displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany. [158], John Demjanjuk died at a home for the elderly in Bad Feilnbach, Germany on 17 March 2012, aged 91. The defense argued that Demjanjuk had never been a guard, but that if he had been that he had had no choice in the matter. The photographs were published on 28 January 2020 in the book Fotos aus Sobibor ("Photos from Sobibor"). The authenticity of the Trawniki card was affirmed by US government experts who examined the original document as well as by Wolfgang Scheffler of the Free University of Berlin during the hearing,[42][43] Scheffler also testified to the crimes committed by Trawniki men and that it was possible that Demjanjuk had been moved between Sobibor and Treblinka. His peers in Boston and throughout Massachusetts individually chose Mr. O’Connor as an outstanding attorney … [134] The indictment made almost no mention of Demjanjuk's service at Majdanek or Flossenbürg, as these were not extermination camps. [48] Although Demjanjuk's Trawniki card only documented that he had been at Sobibor, the prosecution argued that he could have shuttled between the camps and that Treblinka had been omitted due to administrative sloppiness. [20] These documents were found in former Soviet archives in Moscow and in Lithuania, which placed Demjanjuk at Sobibor on 26 March 1943, at Flossenbürg on 1 October 1943, and at Majdanek from November 1942 through early March 1943; administrative documents from Flossenbürg referencing Demjanjuk's name and Trawniki card number were also uncovered. Sheftel also ruffled the feathers of Demjanjuk’s former attorney Mark O’Connor, who was fired by Demjanjuk just weeks before testifying. [16], In 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army. To better serve his clients, Mr. O'Connor can also arrange to meet you at your home, office or other location throughout Orange County and neighboring areas of Los Angeles and Riverside counties. [49] The defense also submitted the statement of Feodor Fedorenko, a Ukrainian guard at Treblinka, which stated that Fedorenko could not recall having seen Demjanjuk at Treblinka. Danilchenko identified Demjanjuk from three separate photo spreads as having been an "experienced and reliable" guard at Sobibor and that Demjanjuk had been transferred to Flossenbürg, where he had received an SS blood-type tattoo; Danilchenko did not mention Treblinka. There he became a United Auto Workers (UAW) diesel engine mechanic at the nearby Ford automobile factory,[30] where a friend from Regensburg had found work. "Ivan", Rosenberg said. [41] On 1 October 1943 he was transferred to Flossenbürg, where he served until at least 10 December 1944. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Mark O’Connor was admitted to practice law … He has successfully prosecuted claims and defended important rights for his clients before judges and juries in both state and federal courts. Attorney O'Connor's practice includes real estate, probate administration, personal injury, civil litigation, Wills and Trusts, guardianships, adoptions, and small business law. His application for asylum was denied on 31 May 1984. About Us. [89], On 29 July 1993, a five-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict on appeal. He joined the court in 1990 and served until December 31, 2016. In 2015, former Auschwitz guard Oskar Gröning was convicted on the same legal argument as Demjanjuk; his conviction was upheld on appeal, solidifying the precedent made by the Demjanjuk case. [53] The first day of the denaturalization trial was accompanied by a protest of 150 Ukrainian-Americans who called the trial "a Soviet trial in an American court" and burned a Soviet flag. [86], Following closing statements, the defense also submitted the statement of Ignat Danilchenko, information which had been obtained through the US Freedom of Information but had not previously been made available to the defense by OSI. Demjanjuk admitted the scar under his armpit was an SS blood group tattoo, which he removed after the war, as did many SS men to avoid summary execution by the Soviets. [144] Demjanjuk's defense team argued that these documents were Soviet forgeries. [79] Most significantly, Sheftel called Dr. Julius Grant, who had proven that the Hitler diaries were forged. Because the Soviet Union generally refused to cooperate with the Israeli prosecutions, this ID card was obtained from the USSR and provided to Israel by American industrialist Armand Hammer, a close associate of several Kremlin leaders, whose help had been requested by the personal appeal of Israeli president Shimon Peres. Demjanjuk became a US citizen in 1958. [28], Demjanjuk, his wife and daughter arrived in New York City aboard the USS General W. G. Haan on 9 February 1952. [125] The Government argued that the Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction to review the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied the stay. [157] Prior to Demjanjuk's trial, the requirement that prosecutors find a specific act of murder to charge guards with had resulted in a very low conviction rate for death camp guards. [3] They settled in Seven Hills, Ohio, where he worked in an auto factory and raised three children. (2015) Mark O'Connor Christmas Tour LIVE DVD (2014 ) MOC4 (2014) The Improvised Violin Concerto - CD/DVD (2013) America On Strings (2012) American Classics (2012) An Appalachian Christmas (2011) 2001-2010. View attorney's profile for reviews, office locations, and contact information. [88] The court declined to find him guilty on this basis because the prosecution had built its entire case around Demjanjuk's identity with Ivan the Terrible, and Demjanjuk had not been given a chance to defend himself from charges of being a guard at Sobibor. [81] Additionally, Sheftel alleged that the trial was a show trial, and referred to the trial as "the Demjanjuk affair," alluding to the famous antisemitic Dreyfus Affair. The issuance of the stay by the immigration trial court was therefore improper, as that court had no jurisdiction over the matter. O'Connor is a native of Daingean Uí Chúis, a town in an Irish-speaking region of County Kerry, Ireland. On 9 December 2008, a German federal court declared that Demjanjuk could be tried for his role in the Holocaust. On 28 December 2005, an immigration judge ordered Demjanjuk deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine. … Attorney Mark O'Connor has been practicing law since 1986 in Medford, Massachusetts. [65], The prosecution team consisted of Israeli State Attorney Yonah Blatman, lead attorney Michael Shaked of the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, and the attorneys Michael Horovitz and Dennis Gouldman of the International Section of the State Attorney's Office. [51], Demjanjuk's defense was supported by the Ukrainian community and various Eastern European émigré groups; Demjanjuk's supporters alleged that he was the victim of a communist conspiracy and raised over two million dollars for his defense. They also gained an additional identification of the visa photo as Demjanjuk by Otto Horn, a former SS guard at Treblinka. [75] The testimony of one of these witnesses, Pinhas Epstein, had been barred as unreliable in US denaturalization trial of former camp guard Feodor Fedorenko,[74] while another, Gustav Boraks, sometimes appeared confused on the stand. He is a recipient of a Pro Bono Award from the Volunteer Lawyers Project. He has also worked with American law firms in … O'Connor received his undergraduate degree from John Carroll University in 1966 and his J.D. [22] His application stated that he had worked as a driver in the town of Sobibór in eastern Poland. [136] Busch would also allege that the German justice system was prejudiced against his client, and that the entire trial was therefore illegitimate. [43] During the trial, Demjanjuk admitted to having lied on his US visa application but claimed that it was out of fear of being returned to the Soviet Union and denied having been a concentration camp guard. [170], In 2019, Netflix released The Devil Next Door, a documentary by Israeli filmmakers Daniel Sivan and Yossi Bloch that focuses on Demjanjuk's trial in Israel. In September 1993 Demjanjuk was allowed to return to Ohio. Through our advanced obituary search, you may search our database of obituaries by name, location, date of death and keywords. [179] The Niemann family has donated the originals to the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "In the FBI, agents learned to keep secrets and compartmentalize, and nobody built more compartments than Mark Felt," O'Connor writes. Sheftel focused the defense largely on the claim that Demjanjuk's Trawniki card was a KGB forgery. "[77] It was later learned that Eliyahu Rosenberg had previously testified in a 1947 deposition that "Ivan the Terrible" had been killed in 1943 during a Treblinka prisoner uprising. [138], Doctors restricted the time Demjanjuk could be tried in court each day to two sessions of 90 minutes each, according to Munich State Prosecutor Anton Winkler. The prosecution called expert witnesses to testify on the authenticity of the card including its signatures by various Nazi officers, paper, and ink. [92], The judge's acquittal of Demjanjuk for being Ivan the Terrible was based on the written statements of 37 former guards at Treblinka that identified Ivan the Terrible as "Ivan Marchenko". Mark O'Conor is experienced in all aspects of IT law, majoring on cloud and digital transformation, public procurement and outsourcing. Danilchenko was a former guard at Sobibor and had been deposed by the Soviet Union in 1979 at the request of OSI. Mark O’Connor is a Director of Bennett & Philp Lawyers and heads the Compensation Law team. [58] The appeals court found probable cause that Demjanjuk "committed murders of uncounted numbers of prisoners" and allowed the extradition to take place. [97] Simon Wiesenthal, an iconic figure in Nazi-hunting, first believed Demjanjuk was guilty, but after Demjanjuk's acquittal by the Israeli Supreme Court said he too would have cleared him given the new evidence. Both large and small businesses seek Mark’s advice on occupational health and safety, workers compensation and legal liability issues. [149], Demjanjuk declined to testify or make a final statement during the trial. ... Mark B. O’Connor. [61], Demjanjuk's trial took place in the Jerusalem District Court between 26 November 1986 and 18 April 1988, before a special tribunal comprising Israeli Supreme Court Judge Dov Levin and Jerusalem District Court Judges Zvi Tal and Dalia Dorner. The accounts of 21 guards who were tried in the Soviet Union on war crimes gave details that differentiate Demjanjuk from Ivan the Terrible – in particular that 'Ivan the Terrible's surname was Marchenko, not Demjanjuk. [29][9] They moved to Indiana, and later settled in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills, Ohio. Attorney Mark L. O'Connor has been serving the needs of his estate planning clients at the same convenient downtown Fullerton location, since 1994. [54] Demjanjuk also attracted the support of conservative political figures such as Pat Buchanan and Ohio congressman James Traficant. [111] On 30 January 2008, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied Demjanjuk's request for review. This is not to suggest that Demjanjuk's time at Sobibor can be subject to reasonable doubt; Demjanjuk's service as a Sobibor Wachmann remains irrefutable, particularly when triangulated with the evidence of his service at Majdanek and Flossenbürg. [147], On 24 February 2010, a witness for the prosecution, Alex Nagorny, who agreed to serve the Nazi Germans after his capture, testified that he knew Demjanjuk from his time as a guard. In 1999, US prosecutors again sought to deport Demjanjuk for having been a concentration camp guard, and his citizenship was revoked in 2002. [45][46] Five Holocaust survivors from Treblinka identified Demjanjuk as having been at Treblinka and having been "Ivan the Terrible. Media related to John Demjanjuk at Wikimedia Commons, Loss of US citizenship and extradition to Israel, Verdict and Israeli Supreme Court reversal, Second loss of US citizenship and extradition to Germany, Death and posthumous efforts to restore US citizenship, Subsequent prosecutions of Nazi extermination camp guards in Germany, Douglas 2016, p. 142: "As the Sydnor/Huebner report had made clear, the evidence of Demjanjuk's service at Majdanek and Flossenbürg was actually more detailed than the material about his time at Sobibor. He then founded a D.C. communications law firm and represented companies such as Google, AOL, EarthLink, British Telecom, and a variety of competitive telecom service providers. [117] The German foreign ministry announced on 2 April 2009 that Demjanjuk would be transferred to Germany the following week,[118] and would face trial beginning 30 November 2009. [18] According to German records, Demjanjuk most likely arrived at Trawniki concentration camp to be trained as a camp guard for the Nazis on 13 June 1942. He was awarded this distinction for 2009 - 2021. As an attorney at Piper & Marbury (now DLA Piper), Mark worked with closely with the senior management of companies such as MCI, Time Warner, PSINet, and Omnipoint.
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