24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2001 No. 23
No. 23 Carnegie parish holds Vacation Bible School CARNEGIE, Pa. – Holy Trinity <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Catholic Church will sponsor its ninth annual Vacation Bible School (VBS) on June 25-29. This year’s theme is “Singing Praises to God.” Pre-registration is $15 for the week ($20 registration at the door). During the five-day program children will raise their voices in song, learning the parts of the liturgy. <strong>The</strong> focus of the week’s lesson will be the Creed in the liturgy. Through the themes of creation, the Nativity, Pascha and Pentecost the children will celebrate God’s love. On Friday, the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, the children will sing the divine THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2001 25 liturgy, which will be followed by a family picnic. This year’s program will include the beginnings of a regional children’s choir. After the lessons and choir practice, children will be bused to Trinity Acres for crafts and playtime. Wednesday they will get immersed in the waters of Baptism on “Water Day.” Registration is at Holy Trinity Church, 730 Washington Ave. in Carnegie; telephone, (412) 279-4652. <strong>The</strong> schedule of the day, which begins at 9:30 a.m. with prayer in church and ends at 1:30 p.m., includes choir practice, class lesson, lunch, crafts, playtime and snacks. Demjanjuk... (Continued from page 1) That indirect reference was to the U.S. government’s previous accusations that Mr. Demjanjuk was the notorious “Ivan” of Treblinka – a charge that did not hold up as Israel’s Supreme Court in 1993 overturned his conviction by a lower court. Mr. Demjanjuk, who had lost his U.S. citizenship in 1981, regained it in February 1998 thanks to a ruling by the same federal judge who is hearing the new case. In his 1998 ruling Judge Matia cited fraud on the part of U.S. government prosecutors and wrote that attorneys of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) “acted with reckless disregard for their duty to the court and their discovery obligations” in failing to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to the Demjanjuk <strong>defense</strong>. Seven documents are key Various news sources reported that the U.S. government’s new case against Mr. Demjanjuk is based on seven wartime documents that show his presence at Trawniki, Sobibor, Majdanek and Flossenberg. Mr. Demjanjuk continues to deny that he ever served the Nazis, but admits that he gave false statements when immigrating to the United States in order to escape repatriation to the Soviet Union, where he feared persecution. Mr. Tigar said his client is once again the victim of mistaken identity. <strong>The</strong> Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported that Mr. Tigar said in his opening statement: “This odyssey is about to come to an end. ... He [Mr. Demjanjuk] has told a consistent version. At the end of the day, he asks this court to listen.” On the first day of the trial, the <strong>defense</strong> challenged the first witness, Gideon Epstein, a forensic document specialist. Mr. Tigar cross-examined him about every detail of the photo identity card that the OSI says was issued to Mr. Demjanjuk, as well as duty rosters. Mr. Epstein said under cross-examination that he could not completely determine whether it is Mr. Demjanjuk’s signature on the Trawniki ID. On May 31, a U.S. government witness, historian Charles W. Sydnor, admitted that he was wrong when he had stated in the 1980s that Mr. Demjanjuk was “Ivan the Terrible.” <strong>The</strong> Plain Dealer reported that Mr. Sydnor said: “I was wrong at the time. But I now believe the Israeli Supreme Court [which said Mr. Demjanjuk may have been a guard somewhere else] got it right, based on the massive amount of documents that have come out since then.” Another prosecution witness, Larry Stewart, a lab director for the Secret Service, testified that the Trawniki card and the photo on it are originals, and that the information on the card, such as birthdate, hometown and father’s name, is the same as that of Mr. Demjanjuk. He also pointed to a reference on the card to a scar on the card holder’s back, noting that federal prosecutors say Mr. Demjanjuk suffered such an injury, and said the ink on the card is similar to that used on other documents issued by the Nazis. Mr. Tigar questioned just what the Trawniki card proves, noting that though it indicates a man named Demjanjuk may have been at the training camp, it does not prove that man was his client. On the fifth day of the trial the <strong>defense</strong> attorney said a man named Ivan Andreievych Demjanjuk, a cousin of his client, had served at Trawniki, and that the description on the Trawniki ID matches one given by a fellow guard, Vasilii Litvinenko, of this heretofore unknown Demjanjuk. Case dates back to 1977 <strong>The</strong> Demjanjuk case dates back to 1977, when the Ohio resident was first accused of being “Ivan the Terrible.” A naturalized U.S. citizen, he lost that status in 1981, when a court stripped him of his citizenship. He was ordered deported and in 1986 was extradited to Israel, where a war crimes trial began the next year. 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