Spanish Holocaust survivors testify in U.S. Nazi extradition case

MADRID - A Spanish court official says two Spaniards who survived a Nazi concentration camp have testified in a suit that urges the United States to extradite four alleged former camp guards on charges of genocide.

A National Court official says Ramiro Santisteban and Jesus Tello testified Monday before Judge Ismael Moreno for a total of about four hours.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with court rules.

Moreno agreed in July to consider a complaint from a human rights group that argues the four suspects should be extradited from the United States on charges of genocide under Spain's observance of the so-called principle of universal justice.

The four suspects were named as John Demjanjuk, Anton Tittjung, Josias Kumpf and Johann Leprich.

Earlier this month, German authorities said charged Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio auto worker, with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.

Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943.

The 88-year-old who lives in a Cleveland suburb denies involvement.

Demjanjuk was once convicted of being the sadistic Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible" and sentenced to death in Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court later overturned the conviction when new evidence showed another man was probably "Ivan" at the Treblinka death camp.