Demjanjuk’s lawyers have repeatedly called for the trial to be abandoned because of their client’s ill health. He is believed to have a serious bone marrow disease.
Because of his ill health, the trial is limited to just two 90 minute sessions a day, and Mr Demjanjuk has spent much of the time so far under a blanket on a hospital stretcher. The trial is expected to last until May.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, expressed his frustration with the delay.
“He should have gone to Hollywood, not Sobibor,” he said.