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Jumbled among these elements is the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being Ivan the Terrible, the notorious Nazi guard at Treblinka. Roth attends the trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West...
Roth the author goes to Israel, as planned, to conduct an interview with the (real) author Aharon Appelfeld. (This exchange was actually published by the New York Times in February 1988.) He also drops in on the trial of John Ivan Demjanjuk, the Cleveland autoworker accused of being the infamous Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka death camp . When he first catches sight of the man who either did or did not commit atrocious crimes, Roth muses, "So there he was. Or wasn...
This week, University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr.'s name appeared several times in the pages of the Crimson, as hearings continue on charges that Ryan and others suppressed evidence in the prosecution of Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk as Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible. Unfortunately, the Crimson's photo files didn't contain any pictures of Ryan to run with the stories, and the attorney was reluctant to have his photo taken...
...December 1991, Ryan was accused of a similar kind of misconduct--suppressing evidence during his tenure at OSI that might have cleared Demjanjuk. The charge was initially leveled by Yoram Sheftel, an attorney for Demjanjuk in Israel, where the alleged Ivan the Terrible now sits on death...
Under direction from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio, Judge Thomas A. Wiseman began his probe of OSI's conduct in the Demjanjuk case last fall, and Ryan testified last month. Throughout, however, Ryan has maintained the issue has nothing to do with Harvard when his days at OSI again landed him in the national and campus news...