John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker, passed away March 17, 2012 at age 91. John was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920. In 1941 he was drafted into the Soviet Union's Red Army, where he was captured and spent four years in Nazi POW camps. After the war he emigrated to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio and worked as an autoworker. John’s peaceful life was forever changed in 1975, when he was extradited to Israel to stand trial for his role in Second World War war crimes, including being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews in occupied Poland. After a lengthy trial and an eight-year prison sentence, he was acquitted in 1993 and returned to the US, where he was again acquitted of all charges in a second trial in 1998. John is able to rest in peace, knowing that he was denied in both trials to have taken part in any war crimes. He is survived by his wife, three sons, and seven grandchildren. A memorial service will be held in his honor.