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...started in the small town of Hastings, Pa, about 110 miles east of Pittsburgh. There, Restic was one of 10 children born to Louis Restic, a Ukrainian-born coalminer, and his Polish wife. He attended a one-room red schoolhouse in the city where all eight grades were taught by a Mrs. Mary Kline, a woman crippled by polio. Every day for all of Restic's eight years at the school, she would painstakingly write lessons on the board with her crippled right...
...Duuuude! it's BRUNO!" This information seems to excite Bruno, but it gets Joe no closer to completing his cutting-edge exegesis on 14th-century Ukrainian dental hygiene...
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...
...have the full body of evidence available today: statements made to Soviet authorities by 32 former guards and five forced laborers at Treblinka, all hailing from what was then the Soviet Union. They said a man named Ivan Marchenko was the Ivan of Treblinka. Marchenko, like Demjanjuk a native Ukrainian, was last seen in Yugoslavia in 1944. The statements of these 37, most of whom were executed by the Soviets as Nazi collaborators, were not obtained by Israeli courts until 1991. But as early as 1978, U.S. officials who handled Demjanjuk's case had the testimony...
...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 as an alias at Treblinka...