Word: trawniki
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...trial headed into its sixth month, all of Israel remained captivated. The principal evidence against the accused is a photo identification card provided to the prosecution by the Soviet Union from its World War II archives. Made out in Demjanjuk's name, it was reputedly issued at the Trawniki camp in Poland, where Soviet prisoners were trained to be death-camp guards. The defense alleges that it is a forgery by the Soviet secret police, whose purpose is to embarrass anti-Soviet Ukrainians...
Prosecutor Michael Shaked presented an altogether different story about Demjanjuk's past. From the POW camp in Chelm, Shaked maintains, Demjanjuk was transferred to Trawniki, an SS center used for training guards to work in the concentration camps, and then to Treblinka, where he served between October 1942 and September 1943. The prosecution's primary exhibit is ID card 1393, made out in Demjanjuk's name and supposedly issued at the Trawniki training center. The defense contends that the card is a forgery by the Soviet KGB as part of an effort to harass the Ukrainian community...