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...Soviet evidence, viewed in its entirety, easts a substantial doubt on Mr. Demjanjuk's factual guilt of the central allegation of the denaturalization complaint--that he was Ivan the Terrible of the Treblinka gas chambers," Wiseman wrote...
...former Nazi who Ryan prosecuted, a Cleveland autoworker named John Demjanjuk, turned out to be the infamous Ivan the Terrible, a guard at the death camp in Treblinka, Poland...
...interviewing survivors and procuring evidence that included an identification card from Trawniki, where the Nazi SS trained death camp guards, Ryan identified Demjanjuk as Ivan. He was sure he had the right man. Perhaps too sure. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," Ryan wrote in his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
Ryan believes there may be an explanation for the Soviet evidence. It's possible, he told the Harvard Gazette in January 1992, that Demjanjuk was known by his mother's name, Marcenko, At Treblinka. And he has doubts, he says, about the significance of 40-year-old evidence from death camp guards who are now dead...
Jumbled among these elements is the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being Ivan the Terrible, the notorious Nazi guard at Treblinka. Roth attends the trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West...