Demjanjuk trial witness describes deportation

A witness at the trial of John Demjanjuk on Tuesday described his deportation in a crowded freight car to the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, where the retired auto worker is alleged to have been a guard.

Jules Schelvis, 88, is one of dozens of victims' relatives who have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law. He told the Munich state court that he lost 18 relatives _ including his wife, Rachel, at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Demjanjuk, a former Soviet Red Army soldier, is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged activities as a guard at Sobibor, for which prosecutors allege he volunteered as an SS guard …