The World - News from April 22, 1987

A World War II identification card, cited as evidence that John Demjanjuk was trained to work in Nazi death camps, is genuine “without any doubt,” an Israeli documents expert testified. At the Jerusalem trial of the former Cleveland auto worker, Amnon Betzaleli said he based his opinion on the signatures of two Nazi SS soldiers on the card. A photograph of Demjanjuk on the card is legitimate, Betzaleli added, and there is “a reasonable possibility” that the signature is actually Demjanjuk’s. Defense lawyers say the card is a Soviet forgery. Demjanjuk, 67, is accused of being the notorious Treblinka gas-chamber technician known as “Ivan the Terrible.”