The World - News from March 10, 1987
John Demjanjuk has been kept in a cold cell, watched constantly and deprived of his rights during interrogation, said a lawyer defending the retired U.S. auto worker against charges of Nazi war crimes in a Jerusalem court. Demjanjuk, 66, is accused of being the brutal Ukrainian guard known as “Ivan the Terrible” at the Treblinka death camp in German-occupied Poland where 850,000 Jews were killed in 1942-43. He is being defended by American attorney Mark O’Connor. As the trial entered its fourth week, a Holocaust survivor, Yehiel Reichman, 72, pointed a finger at Demjanjuk and declared, “Ivan was the super demon of Treblinka.”
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