The World - News from Feb. 19, 1987
The ability of witnesses to give credible testimony more than 40 years after the end of World War II was challenged by the lawyer for John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. Yitzhak Arad, director of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, admitted during cross-examination by defense lawyer Mark O’Connor at Demjanjuk’s war crimes trial in Jerusalem that he was unsure of the exact location of structures at the Treblinka camp. O’Connor told the court that less-expert witnesses could hardly be expected to give accurate testimony if Arad, a historian and author of a book on Treblinka, was uncertain of details.
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