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‘Ivan the Terrible indicted
on four war crimes counts
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The state
of Israel formally indicted Ukrain
ian-born John Demjanjuk Mon
day on four counts of war crimes,
alleging his direct involvement in
the killing of nearly 900,000 Jews
at the Treblinka death camp near
Warsaw during World War II.
The voluminous charge sheet,
submitted in Jerusalem District
Court, accuses Demjanjuk of per
sonally torturing and maiming
camp inmates as they were herded
into the gas chambers and of oper
ating the machinery that flooded
the chambers with deadly gas.
Demjanjuk, a former resident of
Cleveland, Ohio, who was extra
dited to Israel last February after
being stripped of his U.S. citizen
ship, will go on trial early next
year, probably in January. He has
been charged with crimes against
the Jewish people; crimes against
humanity; crimes against persecuted
people; and war crimes. Convic
tion on any of the counts carries
the death penalty.
The state’s case hinges on posi
tive identification of Demjanjuk as
the Treblinka guard known to in
mates as “Ivan the Terrible” for his
brutality.
The charge sheet lists 53 wit
nesses for the nrosecution, 25 of
John Demjanjuk
them Israelis, three Poles, 11 Ger
mans, one Belgian and 13 Ameri
cans. Four of the witnesses are
deceased but their depositions are
admissible in court under special
provisions of the Nazi and Nazi
Collaborators Punishment Law of
1950.
Demjanjuk, 66, claims he is a
victim of mistaken identity, possi
bly inspired by the Soviet Union.
That is the line his American at
torney, Mark O’Connor, is expected
to take in defense. O’Connor, who
has been granted permission to
plead before an Israeli court, will
be assisted by a court-appointed
Israeli attorney.
The charge sheet alleges that
Demjanjuk, when a Soviet prisoner
of war, volunteered to join Nazi
death squads and swore allegiance
to the SS. He was posted at Treb
linka where, the charge sheet says,
he would stand at the entrance to
the gas chambers and stab doomed
inmates with a sword or iron stave,
gouging out pieces of their flesh as
they entered the chamber.
The charge sheet also states;
“Whenever an SS man or auxiliary
(like Demjanjuk) wounded a pri
soner on his face, that prisoner was
marked for execution immediately
Knowing this, the accused used to
slice off noses or ears...condemn
ing them to death.”
Demjanjuk is also accused of
participating enthusiastically in
especially horrendous episodes of
torture in the wake of attempted
escapes and systematically blud
geoning his prisoners with a club
or lashing them with a whip.
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the report, the sale is under consideration by the ministers of
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