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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 10, 1993                   TAG: 9304100018
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: JERUSALEM                                LENGTH: Short

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DEMJANJUK SEEKS UKRAINE CITIZENSHIP

John Demjanjuk, stripped of his American citizenship and convicted of Nazi war crimes, is seeking citizenship from his native Ukraine.

The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel, Yuri Scherbak, met with Demjanjuk this week at his request.

"We have a law which says that any person born in the Ukraine can ask for citizenship," Scherbak told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Scherbak said he didn't know whether the legal proceedings in Israel would affect Demjanjuk's application.

Demjanjuk, 73, was born in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. He emigrated to the United States after World War II but was stripped of his U.S. citizenship before his 1986 extradition to Israel.

An Israeli court convicted him in 1988 of being "Ivan the Terrible," a gas chamber operator at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Demjanjuk appealed his conviction and death sentence and is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling.

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