Dr. Lawrence Douglas will speak about the case of John (Ivan) Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian citizen who was accused of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland, during World War II. Demjanjuk, who lived most of his adult life in suburban Cleveland, was the subject of the lengthiest and most bizarre criminal case to arise out of the Holocaust. All told Demjanjuk was tried four times: twice in the United States on immigration charges; once in Israel, in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history; and finally in Germany, where a Munich court convicted him in 2011 as having served as a guard at an SS death camp.
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