University Daily Kansan / Thursdav. February 26. 1987
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Church to move Auschwitz convent
United Press International
ROME — Roman Catholic officials, honoring a Jewish request, have agreed to remove a Carmelite convent from the grounds of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, an Italian Jewish leader said yesterday.
"I am deeply satisfied with the agreement because it shows on both sides a deep desire for dialogue." Tullia Zevi, president of Italy's Union of Jewish Communities, said.
Zevi and other European Jewish
chwitz during Hitler's reign. An estimated 4 million people, including hundreds of thousands of Polish Catholics, were gassed at the camp.
leaders met in Geneva on Sunday with four Roman Catholic cardinals who agreed to move the convent outside the Auschwitz-Birchenau grounds within the next two years.
The Carmelites have said they established the convent to be spiritually united with Edith Stein, a converted Jew and nun who died at Auschwitz. Pope John Paul II is expected to beatstein, elevate her to one step below sainthood, in May when he visits West Germany.
The group agreed to establish an interreligious center outside the camp grounds where both Catholics and Jews could pray. The nuns eventually will be moved to the center, officials said.
Hitler's genocide against European Jewery," as B'nai B'rith International wrote to the Vatican's ambassador to the United States this month.
The convent building once was used to store the Zyklon D gas used to exterminate 2 million Jews at Aus-
"But we believe Auschwitz should remain a symbol and a monument to horror, and that no specific religion should settle there," Zevi said.
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Treblinka survivor testifies U.S. autoworker was guard
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JERUSALEM — A second Holocaust survivor testified yesterday that retired U.S. autoworker John Demanjuk was a feared Nazi death camp guard, then shouted, "you murderer," and had to be restrained by security guards.
The witness's wife fainted during the courtroom confrontation and was carried outside.
It was the seventh day of Demanjuk's trial for war crimes. He is charged as having been a vicious guard called "Ivan the Terrible" at the Trebikina death camp in Poland during World War II. Demanjuk, 66, maintains he is a victim of mistaken identity.
Witness Eliyahu Rosenberg, a Treblina survivor, was asked by state prosecutors if he could identify Demianuk as "Ivan the Terrible."
"Could the accused take off his glasses?" Rosenberg asked. "I want to see his eyes ... may I come closer to the accused?"
As the defense and prosecution argued whether the court should grant Rosenberg's request, the burly Demjanjuk, who has remained almost motionless throughout his trial, suddenly rose and removed his
glasses.
Rosenberg left the witness lectern and peered closely into the eyes of the Ukrainian-born Demanjuk, who offered his palm as if to shake hands with the Treblinka survivor.
Rosenberg gasped, raised his hands in agitation and cried out, "I say unhappily this is Ivan the murderer of him," could tell by his "murderer's eyes."
As courtroom security guards restrained Rosenberg and pulled him away from Demijanik, the witness told me. "I put out your hand to me, you murderer."
Rosenberg was the second Trebiniak survivor to testify that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible." On Monday, Polish-born Pinhas Epstein told the court: "That is Ivan of Trebinka."
Extradited by the United States to stand trial, Demjanjuk faces the death penalty if convicted of running Treblinka's massive human slaughter operations.
Demjanjuk maintains he was never there and is a victim of mistaken identity. He said he was a Soviet soldier who was captured in 1922 and held for most of the war.
Demjanjuk stared intently at Rosenberg as the witness described
little children screaming "like dogs"
and running naked into the gas chambers
just to escape the sub-zero cold of
the Polish winter in 1942-43.
"They saw the door and they ran in. They just wanted to get out of the cold." Rosenberg said. "You can't imagine the cries human beings can emit. The children wailed in a manner that filled the air around us."
Rosenberg's family was destroyed in the camp, he said.
Rosenberg said Ivan — Demanjuk's first name before he moved to the United States and changed it — always wore black and carried such weapons as iron pipes, swords or whips.
Ivan and another guard operated an engine that produced the deadly fumes pumped into the death chambers.
"There were two people — Ukrainians — dressed in black. One was called Ivan and other was called Tyumen." They named names. They operated this engine.
"One of my aspirations was to get a bullet through the head and end it all. he testified, explaining that his wife was shot and he escaped the death camp burial."
"There was no hope to get out.
There was no such thing as hope."
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