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It was another thing, though, to per- suade a foreign court that Israel should try a man who is not an Israeli national, whose offense was not committed in Israel and whose victims were not, at the time, Israelis. "We argued that Israel has a special interest in bringing Nazi criminals to trial and that the Jewish state now represents the victims." Six Israeli survivors testified at Demjanjuk's denaturalization hearings in the U.S. According to one survivor, Demjanjuk was in charge of packing victims into the gas chambers. "He used to fill the chambers by shoving the people through the doors, clubbing them until they were all inside ... He used to pull the pretty girls out of the lines and rape them. I saw this many times," said the survivor. "And after he raped them, he would take them outside and shoot them." "I'm not an expert on the Nazi era," said Gouldman. "I became aware of gaps in my knowledge of the Holocaust which I have had to fill in. And naturally I have deep personal feelings about it. I am a lawyer, but I am a human being first." One of the difficulties facing lawyers involved in preparing the case against Demjanjuk is the scarcity of witnesses. There are believed to be only 10 sur- vivors in Israel who can give eye-witness accounts of life — and death — in Treblinka. "Few people survived," said Gouldman. "Treblinka was a death camp, where up to 15,000 people a day were murdered. They arrived on the trains, were stripped and shaved, then• forced to run through a corridor straight to the extermination chambers. "There were, only a few bar- racks for the Jewish slaves, who took the bodies from the gas chambers, pulled out any gold teeth and burnt the corpses in huge pits. The slaves themselves rarely survived for more than a few months." But in all the accounts of sur- vivors, one name recurred: "Ivan the Terrible." His slaves told how the tall, powerful Ukrai- nian tortured them, nailing their ears to the wall, whipping them mercilessly and killing men with his bare hands. They, and lawyers in the U.S. and Israel, are convinced that "Ivan the Terrible" and John Demjanjuk are one and the same man. Shortly before Demjanjuk's arrival, Israel's Foreign Minis- ter, Yitzhak Shamir, declared that the occasion was a matter of "historic justice." Demjanjuk's trial, he said, was important for the education of all young people: "If there are other Nazi criminals in the world, all of them will be brought • to trial here in Jerusalem," he said. "Humanity has to know that it is the call of destiny to bring all such crimi- nals to trial." But the prospect of Demjanjuk on trial in Jerusalem has not won universal approval in Is- rael. According to Dr. Yitzhak Raveh, one of the three judges who sentenced Eichmann to death, there is no longer any educational, legal or historical value in putting Nazis on trial in Israel, "unless we are talking of criminals who held senior positions during the Holocaust and against whom there is real proof." In an apparent reference to the Demjanjuk case, he added: "The Eichmann trial was right on target, but I wouldn't touch a low-level Nazi." Haim Cohn, a retired Sup- reme Court judge who now heads an Israeli civil liberties group, was also critical of the pending trial: "The world today will not understand why Israel is putting Nazi war criminals on trial two generations after they committed their crimes," he said. "It is likely to see this as an attack on human rights. "The questions are hard, but one thing is clear: we should not put the small fish among them on trial." But Dr. Gideon Hausner, a former attorney-general of Israel and chief state prosecutor in the Eichmann trial, remains con- vinced of the necessity of bring- ing suspected Nazi war crimi- nals to trial in Jerusalem: "The crimes of the Nazis are so horri- ble that they should never be forgiven or forgotten," he told me. The Germans themselves are not doing enough to expose Nazi war criminals who are still liv- ing in Germany: "They owe themselves a process of self- cleansing and on the whole they are performing this process. But it is inadequate and unsatisfac- tory. "When I heard that a Nazi criminal who was responsible for sending thousands and thousands of Jews from the ghetto in Lodz (Poland) to the gas chambers received a sen- tence of just three years in jail, I asked myself, 'What's the use?' "One could calculate in terms of seconds the punishment for taking away a human life." Nor does Gouldman have any reservations about the forthcom- ing Demjanjuk case: "We have a duty to bring these people to trial. The Holocaust is of enor- mous importance in human his- tory and is just now being fully understood." Eichmann and Demjanjuk, he said, represent the two sides of the Nazi coin: "Demjanjuk could never have treated a Treblinka. And . Eichmann, who was the brains of the 'Final Solution,' could never have carried out his policy'alone. "He needed the .hundreds, thousands of thugs and sadists like Demjanjuk who were given terrible powers and who excelled at their duties and enjoyed the job." ,