Tue 9/20 @ 5:30-7PM
The story of Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk is a complicated one. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant who died in 2012 at the age of 91, was living quietly in retirement in a Cleveland suburb when he was identified by Holocaust survivor as a particularly cruel guard at a Polish concentration camp.
From then until his death, the debate continued. Was he that person or misidentified? If not, was he a guard in some other camp? And what would be the appropriate charges for such a person? He was deported, convicted, had his conviction overturned, returned, was deported and tried again and eventually died in a nursing home in Germany.
Amherst College professor Lawrence Douglas, who covered the saga’s final chapter and wrote a new book called The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk & the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, will speak at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law about what he learned. The program is free and open to the public.
11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106