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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 28, 1986
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Nazi criminal Demjanjuk
extradited to Israel for trial
by Hugh Orge!
TEL AVIV —The expected
arrival here later this week of
accused Nazi war criminal John
Demjanjuk under escort of United
States and Israeli marshals has
triggered stepped-up efforts de
signed to pave the way for the
second war crimes trial in the 38-
year history of the Jewish State.
Demjanjuk, a native of the
Ukraine, lost his last legal barrier
preventing his extradition to Israel
when the United States Supreme
Court declined Monday to review
a lower court ruling that found
“probable cause” that Demjanjuk
was a guard at the Nazi death
camps at Tremblinka and Sobibor.
The 65-year-old retired Cleve
land auto worker is expected to be
tried here under a 1950 law.
Punishment of Nazis and their
Collaborators. He faces possible
execution if tried and convicted of
the murder of Jews in World War
II.
The only other person to be tried
and convicted under this law was
Adolf Eichmann, who was kid
napped by Israeli intelligence
agents in Argentina and hanged in
Jerusalem on May 31, 1962.
The United States Justice De
partment accused Demjanjuk,
known to death camp inmates as
“Ivan the Terrible” for his cruel
treatment of prisoners, with
operating the gas chambers at
Treblinka where some 900,000
Jews were murdered during the
Holocaust.
Demjanjuk is expected to be
brought to Israel aboard a direct
El-Al flight from New York, as a
landing, even briefly, in an in
termediate airfield might embar
rass a foreign government during
the passage of the controversial
figure.
Officials of the Justice Ministry,
the attorney general’s office, the
police and prison service had
contingency plans developed last
year when it became apparent that
there was a strong possibility that
Demjanjuk might be extradited to
Israel under the terms of a 1963
extradition agreement with the
US.
Demjanjuk, who has main
tained his innocence, saying he was
a Soviet soldier during the war
who was captured by the Nazis,
has argued through his attorney
that the extradition treaty between
the two governments does not
allow for him to be sent to Israel.
He would be the first person
extradited from the U.S. to Israel
for crimes committed during
World War II.
Justice Minister Moshe Nissim
said Monday that Demjanjuk
would be tried in the Jerusalem
district court by a panel of three
judges headed by a justice of the
Supreme Court. While the at
torney general’s office and the
police are preparing the charge
sheet, other officials are deciding
on where the trial will take place.
The venue must be dignified
enough to serve as a court and
large enough to accommodate the
large number of people, including
hundreds of foreign reporters,
expected to view the trial. Justice
Ministry personnel have inspected
and found suitable for use in the
Demjanjuk trial the bullet proof
glass box which encased the stand
at which Eichmann sat during his
trial. It has been preserved as an
exhibit at the Lochamei Hagetaot
Museum.
Demjanjuk will probably be
held during the preparations for
his trial, including his interro
gation by the police for prepa
ration of the charge sheet—which
may take several months—in the
same special cell at the Ramie
Prison which housed Eichmann.
His prison guards will probably
be chosen from a panel of in
dividuals who have had no
connection with the Nazis, either
directly in their own person or
through members of their family,
as to avoid the possibility of
personal revenge.
But the question of who will
represent Demjanjuk is still to he
settled. Under Israeli law, only
lawyers registered in Israel may
plead in Israeli courts. It will not be
easy to find a local attorney ready
to undertake the defense of
Demjanjuk, and the accused war
criminal may request an attorney
from abroad.
In the case of Eichmann, a
special law was passed to enable a
West German attorney, Robert
Servatius, to appear in the
Jerusalem court to defend him.
fTechnion gets equipment gift ^
NEW YORK (JTA)—Digital Equipment Corporation of
Maynard, Mass., has donated a half-million dollars in equipment
to the I echnion Israel Institute ol T echnology. It will be part of a
$1 million Computer Network System at the Technion’s Haifa
campus and will also enable joint projects to be conducted with
hi-tech industries and government ministries.
At the same time, the American Society for the Technion also
announced, as well, its receipt of a $i million grant from Evelyn
and Jerry Bishop of Rockville Centre, N. Y., to establish a Fund for
Research and Faculty Assistance in their name. The fund will be
used to attract talented professors to the Technion.
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