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Page 32 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 5, 1986
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
trial of alleged Na/i war criminal
John Demjanjuk was formally
opened in Jerusalem District
Court Nov. 26 and, after a 40-
minute hearing, was adjourned
until Jan. 19.
The Ukrainian-born former
resident of Cleveland, Ohio, is
charged with responsibility for
the deaths oftens of thousands of
Jews and others at the Treblinka
death camp during World War II
w here he is alleged to have served
as a guard, known to inmates as
“Ivan the Terrible,” because of
his unmitigated brutality. Ac
cording to the charges, he per
sonally operated the gas chambers.
At the hearing, Demjanjuk and
his American lawyer, Mark
O’Connor, repeated the defense
John Demjanjuk
contention of mistaken identity.
“I am not Ivan the Terrible whom
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vous Demjanjuk told the court.
The official charges against
the accused are war crimes, crimes
against humanity and crimes
against persecuted people. Asked
how his client pleaded, O’Con
nor said, “We cannot deny that
such terrible things were done in
the camps, and we would there
fore be prepared to admit to
many of the charges, but the
accused is not the man to whom
the charge sheet refers.”
The small courtroom was filled
mainly with Justice Ministry of
ficials and the media. The pri
soner spoke in his native Ukrain
ian, translated into Hebrew and
English. An argument arose when
the defense asked that the Ukrain
ian translator be replaced on
grounds that he is to be a prose
cution witness. Another person
of Ukrainian origin took over the
translation.
O’Connor’s claim that his
client was unfit to stand trial at
this time, because of an injury
sustained when the prison van
skidded on the way from Ramie
prison to Jerusalem, was rejected
by court president Judge Dov
Levin. He said he was willing to
hear Demjanjuk’s complaint in
his private chambers but would
not admit it to the trial proceed
ings.
Another complaint, voiced by
O’Connor, was that he has been
forced to appear in court without
the assistance of an Israeli law
yer. He underscored this by apol
ogizing repeatedly for his “imper
fect knowledge of Israeli law.”
O’Connor was given special
dispensation by the Justice Min
istry several months ago to plead
in Israeli courts. An Israeli law
yer was to be appointed to assist
him on points of law. O’Connor
told reporters after the hearing
that he had spoken to six attor
neys referred to him by the Israel
Bar Association but none was
prepared to give his time, “a year
or year-and-a-half,” according to
O’Connor, to serve at the trial.
“Certainly, 1 cannot pay the
fees of Israeli lawyers who have
asked for $400,000 or $600,000
fees,” O’Connor said.
Demjanjuk. 66. was stripped
of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for
lying about his alleged Nazi past.
He is the first Nazi war crimes
suspect extradited to Israel and
will be the lirst to stand trial here
since Adolf Eichmann, who was
executed in 1962.
Reese fellowship
given in gratitude
CHICAGO (JTA)—A Danish
physician is researching anesthe
sia here at Michael Reese Hospi
tal because before he was horn
his countrymen saved Jews from
the Nazis.
Dr. Peter Bo Hansen, 3 I, is the
recipient of the Bispebjerg Fellow
ship of the hospital, created in
honor of the doctors and nurses
of Bispebjerg H ospital in Copen
hagen who risked their lives to
save 140 Jewish neighbors.
The endangered Jews com
prised a mock funeral procession
that stopped at the chapel of the
hospital one day in October 1943.
Inside, they shed their funeral
clothes and received food and
comfort from the hospital staff,
l ater, they were smuggled aboard
a fishing boat to Sweden.
Reese physicians created the
fellowship in 1963, allowing each
of nine Bispebjerg physicians to
study a variety of medical sub
jects for a year.