Demjanjuk, 89, accused of herding Jews to their deaths in Holocaust

PROSECUTORS accused 89-year-old John Demjanjuk yesterday of knowingly herding thousands of Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust and standing by as victims of Nazi death camp Sobibor screamed in fear.

Propped up under a white sheet on a mobile bed, the former US car worker closed his eyes or stared into space as prosecuting lawyers charged him with helping to kill 27,900 Jews in what may be Germany’s last major Nazi-era war crimes trial.

Demjanjuk denies he was involved in the Holocaust and his family insists he is too frail to stand trial.