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...planned, to conduct an interview with the (real) author Aharon Appelfeld. (This exchange was actually published by the New York Times in February 1988.) He also drops in on the trial of John Ivan Demjanjuk, the Cleveland autoworker accused of being the infamous Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka death camp . When he first catches sight of the man who either did or did not commit atrocious crimes, Roth muses, "So there he was. Or wasn...
Demjanjuk's attorneys have been using the Soviet records, which contain statements of Nazi guards from the Treblinka death camp, in an effort to prove misconduct by OSI and reverse Demjanjuk's denaturalization and extradition. Wiseman will hear closing arguments from the attorneys for Demjanjuk and the government in Nashville in April...
...August 1952, Demjanjuk, who would later be accused of operating the motor used to produce carbon monoxide fumes to kill people at Treblinka, became an engine mechanic at Ford. In 1958, Demjanjuk became an American citizen, changing his first name to John. He had two more children in the 1960s...
...denaturalization trial, Demjanjuk did not deny that the picture on the identification card was of him. And five Treblinka survivors testified that both the picture on the card and the picture on Demjanjuk's visa application were photos of Ivan the Terrible...
Since news of the guard statements broke. Ryan has offered other possible explanations. He told the Harvard Gazette in January 1992 that Demjanjuk might have been known by his mother's maiden name, Marchenko, at Treblinka. Ryan also said it was possible that both Ivan Marchenko and Ivan Demjanjuk were present at the death camp...