By
Lubomyr Luciuk, For the Calgary Herald
Re: "Wheels of justice turn slowly for Demjanjuk," Letter, May
17, 2011.
Back in 1987, a New York City resident, Jacob Tannenbaum, was
identified as
a Jewish kapo who served the Nazis at the Gorlitz prison camp.
He was not prosecuted because of his age (75) and reported ill
health.
Explaining this leniency, Rabbi Marvin Hier, of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center in
Los Angeles, proclaimed: "There are no Jewish John Demjanjuks." There
also are no Ukrainian Jacob Tannenbaums.
Lubomyr Luciuk, Toronto
Lubomyr Luciuk
is director of research for the
Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association.