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JUST NORTH OF 8 MILE RD. 398-4560 48 FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1987 J ohn Demjanjuk, born in the Ukraine, admit- - ted to the United States in 1952 under the Displaced Persons Act, who became a naturalized citizen in 1958, is now on trial in Jerusalem charged with the World War II murder of tens of thousands of Jews and non- Jews while operating the gas chambers at the Treblinka . concentration camp. No in- dividual had previously been extradited from the U.S. to Israel on war crimes charges. The background story of how Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and ex- tradited to Israel provides a special glimpse into the work- ings of the U.S. justice system and the strength of character of Chief Judge Pierce Lively of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. This case began in the ear- ly 1980s in the Cleveland courtroom of Chief Federal District Judge Frank Battisti when the U.S. Department of Justice sued to revoke John Demjanjuk's certificate of naturalization and to vacate the order admitting him to citizenship. Judge Battisti ruled in favor of the govern- ment, finding: • "The savage cruelty of this notorious man earned him the special nickname among the camp's Jewish in- mates, "Ivan (Grozny)" or "Ivan the terrible"?" • At his naturalization, he changed his first name from Ivan to John. • His failure to disclose his service under the German SS at Trawniki and his later ser- vice as an armed guard at Treblinka were material misrepresentations on his visa application. The government then began deportation pro- ceedings and the State of Israel filed a request for Dem- janjuk's extradition. Demjanjuk appealed. The case was heard by a three- judge Appeals Court panel: Judges Pierce Lively of Ken- tucky, Damon Keith of Mich- igan and Gilbert Merritt of Tennessee. The court held that the District Court did not err — that the extradition did not violate any of Demjan- juk's rights under the Con- stitution and statutes of the United States. Chief Judge Lively wrote a unanimous opinion that not only completely undercut all of Demjanjuk's arguments, but went on to set forth in stern and direct language the proper response of a civilized nation to the inhuman con- duct charged against him: "There was sworn testimony by affidavits from six witnesses who were at Treblinka in 1942 and 1943 who stated that Demjanjuk was a guard who herded prisoners into the gas chambers and then actually operated the mechanism which filled the chambers with gas. In addition, several of the witnesses testified that they saw Demjanjuk beat and maim prisoners, some of whom died." He also wrote: "Murder is a crime in every state of the United States. The fact that there is no separate offense of mass murder or murder of tens of thousands of Jews in this country is beside the point .. . "Demjanjuk's argument that to interpret murder to in- clude murder of Jews would amount to judicial amend- ment of the treaty is absurd and offensive." Damjanjuk claimed that he couldn't be extradited to Israel because he wasn't a citizen or resident of Israel, the crimes charged were com- mitted in Poland, and they took place in 1942 or 1943, before the State of Israel came into existence. Judge Lively responded that U.S.-Israel extradition treaty language recognizes the right to request extradi- tion for extraterritorial crimes. In this case, the Israeli statute applied to "crimes against the Jewish people," "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes" committed during the Nazi years. "Such a claim of ex- traterritorial jurisdiction over criminal offenses is not uni- que to Israel," he wrote. Judge Lively further ruled that international law recog- nizes a universal jurisdiction of an offense such as genocide "based on the assumption that some crimes are so universally condemned that the perpetrators are the enemies of all people." He noted that the establishment of the Nuremberg tribunals was based on such universal jurisdiction. Additionally, Judge Lively ruled that "the fact that the State of Israel was not in ex- istence when Demjanjuk allegedly committed the of- fenses is no bar to Israel's ex-