Cleveland Plain Dealer: Hope is alive for John Demjanjuk
John Demjanjuk arrives at the court building in Munich, southern Germany, on May 11.
Faced with growing evidence that John Demjanjuk and "Ivan the Terrible" are not the same man, Israel's Supreme Court could overturn the former Seven Hills autoworker's conviction and death sentence. The five-judge panel hearing Demjanjuk's appeal is to meet Dec. 23 to consider a final round of documents. A date has not been set for a ruling. Obtained from Soviet archives, the evidence strongly suggests a man named Ivan Marczenko, not Ivan (Ukrainian for John) Demjanjuk, was the brutal gas chamber operator Treblinka death camp inmates knew as "Ivan the Terrible." Read the story here.
