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...Demjanjuk's case was reopened in 1993 after Israeli courts unveiled testimony from 37 former guards and laborers at Treblinka that suggested Demjanjuk was not their man. The aggregated statements - which had been withheld at trials - instead implicated another Ukrainian, Ivan Marchenko. The Israeli Supreme Court found that while Demjanjuk had served as a guard at three concentration camps, he was not, in fact, the infamous Nazi. His conviction and death sentence were vacated...
Among the "most wanted" -- or at least most immediately wanted -- of the hundreds of war criminals still unaccounted for is the real "Ivan the Terrible," now thought to be a Ukrainian named Ivan Marchenko, who would be 82 today. He was last sighted leaving a brothel in Croatia in 1945. Says Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief sleuth in Jerusalem: "The problem is that Yugoslavia ((today)) is a hard place to look for anybody...
...indicate that Demjanjuk had been a Nazi collaborator: an identity card supplied to the Americans by the Soviets, who claimed to have discovered it among German documents seized in the war, indicated he had been trained as a Wachmann, or guard, for the SS. U.S. officials thought Demjanjuk and Marchenko were one and the same. In his 1951 application for a U.S. visa, Demjanjuk incorrectly listed his mother's maiden name as Marchenko. He said he had forgotten her real name and simply selected a common Ukrainian surname, but his choice gave rise to speculation that he had used Marchenko...
...survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen him testify in America." Israel's Supreme Court now knows what the trial court did not: that there were two men, Ivan Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko. Judging by photos of the two as young men, they shared a similar round face, protruding ears, almond-shaped eyes and thin lips...
...value of Holocaust survivors and made it "incredibly difficult" to press for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals worldwide. He insists the Wiesenthal Center will not lessen its efforts to bring these criminals to justice. But he will not say whether the organization has made any effort to find Marchenko, the true beast, it would seem, of Treblinka. Marchenko, who was born in 1911, could well be dead. If he is still alive and free, living comfortably in Croatia or Argentina or some American suburb, that would be the greatest travesty of the Demjanjuk affair...