The World - News from March 18, 1987

A retired Israeli policewoman testified against accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk after a court ruled she could give evidence she collected from Holocaust survivors who have since died. The court decision was a blow for the defense, which argued that such evidence was inadmissible because it is impossible to cross-examine the dead. Miriam Radiwker, 81, a former member of the Israeli Police Nazi War Crimes Unit, told the court that six Holocaust survivors she interviewed had identified Demjanjuk from photos as the Treblinka death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible.” Three of the six have died since the 1976 interviews.