EVIDENCE DOES NOT LINK OHIO MAN TO TREBLINKA

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992                   TAG: 9201160192
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: JERUSALEM                                LENGTH: Short
EVIDENCE DOES NOT LINK OHIO MAN TO TREBLINKA
The Supreme Court admitted evidence Wednesday that challenged convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk's claim to have been a POW during much of World War II.
But the prosecution evidence fell short of linking the retired Ohio auto worker with the Treblinka death camp.
Demjanjuk, 72, was convicted in April 1988 of being "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic guard who operated the gas chamber where 850,000 Jews died in 1942 and 1943. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was sentenced to death and is appealing his conviction.
Defense attorney Yoram Sheftel objected to the new evidence as "irrelevant," saying it had nothing to do with whether Demjanjuk was the guard Ivan, the basis on which he was convicted.
Demjanjuk was extradited from Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, to Israel in 1986, nine years after the Justice Department moved to revoke his U.S. citizenship. - Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB