Shaarey ZeAek
Beth 444yetect
Ishosery School

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FOR SEPTEMBER 1993

For ages 2-6

Two locations:
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Rd., Southfidd
B'nai Israel/Applebaum Center, 4200 Walnut Lake Rd., W. Bloomfield

• Lunch Program
• Parent-Toddler Classes (15-30 months)
• Enrichment Classes for Nursery & Kindergarten

Call for information about summer camp, too!

For more information call: Janet Pont, 681-5353 or Rena Weintraub, 357-5544.

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Demjanjuk Team
Admits Tape Erasure

New York (JTA) — A lawyer
for convicted Nazi war
criminal John Demjanjuk
has admitted that a taped
interview with an important
witness in the case was eras-
ed by a supporter of Mr.
Demjanjuk who was present
during the interview.
The interviewed witness, a
former SS guard at the
Treblinka death camp, had
reportedly said previously
that he knew a Treblinka
guard with a name similar
to Mr. Demjanjuk.
Mr. Demjanjuk, a 72-year-
old retired Cleveland auto
worker, has repeatedly de-
nied ever being at
Treblinka, although he was
convicted in Israel for crimes
committed as the notorious
"Ivan the Terrible" of the
camp.
Public defender Edward
Marek, appointed last
summer to defend Mr. Dem-
janjuk in a current legal pro-
ceeding in the case, told
Justice Department at-
torney Patty Merkamp
Stempler in a letter that "no
written report exists" of a
1990 interview with the
witness, former Treblinka
guard Nikolai Malagon.
And, he said, the tape was
"erased two or three days"
afterward by an individual
named Jaroslaw
Dobrowolskyj, who traveled
to Ukraine with the defense
team to interview Mr.
Malagon.
Mr. Marek, reached by
telephone, declined to com-
ment.
His letter was a response
to questions put to the
defense by Mr. Stemler, who
is chief of the appellate sec-
tion of the Justice Depart-
ment's Criminal Division in
Washington.
It was made available by
the World Jewish Congress,
which decried the erasure.
"This reeks of a coverup,"
Kalman Sultanik, a WJC
vice president who is himself
a Holocaust survivor, said in
a statement.
Mr. Marek is defending
Mr. Demjanjuk before the
6th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Cincinnati, which is hear-
ing accusations that crucial
exculpatory evidence regar-
ding Mr. Demjanjuk was
withheld by the Justice
Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations during
his denaturalization and
extradition hearings.
Mr. Demjanjuk was

extradited to Israel, where
he was convicted in 1988 and
sentenced to hang.
The Cincinnati court ap-
pointed a special master,
U.S. District Judge Thomas
Wiseman, in Nashville,
Tenn., to investigate the
Justice Department's handl-
ing of the case.
After two days of 4
testimony last week by two
former Justice Department
lawyers, both of whom
defended their work on the
Demjanjuk case, Judge
Wiseman told reporters that
his investigation is expected
to be finished by May.
Mr. Demjanjuk has stead-
fastly maintained that his
was a case of mistaken iden-
tity and that Ivan the Terri-
ble was in fact a man named
Ivan Marchenko.
Mr. Malagon, who served a
prison sentence for war ' 114
crimes, told Soviet au-
thorities in 1978 that he re-
membered both an Ivan
Demedyuk or Dem'yanyuk
who was a cook at the ii
Treblinka camp and was
later promoted to operating -
gas chamber vans.
He also remembered that -
there was a man named
Marchenko who operated
the gas chambers.

Blast Kills
Industry Worker -•

Tel Aviv (JTA) — An
employee of the Israel
Military Industries factory
in the Tel Aviv suburb of
Ramat Hasharon was killed
in what was described as a
"work accident" at the
plant.
The victim was identified
as Amir Anka, 28, of Bnei 44
Brak.
No details of the accident
were given and reporters
were kept away from the
scene.
There was no damage out-
side the laboratory.
There have been several
accidents at IMI installa-
tions in Ramat Hasharon
and elsewhere in the greater -■ 4
Tel Aviv area in the past
year or so.
And there has been a
growing demand by people
living near the plants for
speedy implementation of a
decision, taken after a 104
previous such blast with
casualties, to move the in-
stallations to a remote area
of the Negev.

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