Word: demjanjuk
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...Demjanjuk's trial is so crucial because it may be the last of its kind. Soon no survivors will be left to tell of the sufferings they and their families were forced to endure merely because they were Jews. No one will be left to break down in tears and strike out in unavenged rage against their past tormenters--before our eyes...
...trial is not even being broadcast daily on Israeli television; state network officials say the case has not generated sufficient interest in the country. And there are no long lines of Israelis eager to sit in on Demjanjuk's trial, as there were for Eichmann's trial...
...THERE more outrage? Demjanjuk is accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," the guard who beat and tortured Jews and ran the gas chambers at Treblinka, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. He is charged with "crimes against the Jewish people, [and] crimes against humanity." He has been positively identified as the infamous "Ivan the Terrible" by the first two witnesses called to the stand...
...DEMJANJUK'S TRIAL--the testimony against him, as well as his callous reactions to it--should incite a passionate reaction. Jews, especially, owe it to themselves to pay attention to and learn from this trial. To remember, to hurt, to burn, along with the survivors...
Some say it is a mistake to reopen old wounds. But you can't open wounds that have never--and will never--heal. The Demjanjuk trial rips off the 40-year-old bandages that have allowed some to shield their eyes to their own scars. And it exposes the youngest generation to the gory wound for the first time...