Justice In Jerusalem
Not everyone
in Israel is
pleased that
the man
known as
Ivan The
Terrible is
about to
stand trial
for Nazi war
crimes
HELEN DAVIS
Special to the Jewish News
ust 25 years after the trial and
execution of Adolf Eichmann,
Israeli society will be convulsed
as yet another suspected war crim-
inal goes on trial in Jerusalem next
month.
John Demjanjuk, known to sur-
vivors of the rfreblinka death camp as
"Ivan the Ibrrible", will face charges
of killing hundreds of thousands of
Jews.
Now aged 66, Demjanjuk will be
tried under Israeli laws which deal
with crimes against the Jewish peo-
ple, crimes against humanity, war
crimes and murder.
There are many differences between
the Demjanjuk case and that of
Eichmann.
Eichmann was the mastermind of
the Holocaust, the brilliant logician
who sat behind a desk and orches-
trated Hitler's Final Solution; Dem-
j anjuk, it is alleged, was a small,
albeit brutally efficient, cog in the
machine, an instrument of death.
Eichmann was tracked down to his
adopted home in Buenos Aires by
Israeli intelligence agents, abducted
and flown to Israel, where he was
tried and finally executed on May 31,
1962; Demjanjuk was discovered,
j
"Ivan the Terrible" is led to a court appearance in Jerusalem.