*************************************************************************** Will Zuzak; DEMANUK.022 = Nezowy Testimony; Sept. 1, 1995; 1995-12-04 *************************************************************************** The following material is from a pamphlet by the Schiller Institute, P.O. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244 (410)247-4200 titled: Independent Hearings to Investigate Misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice, Sheraton Premiere Hotel, Tyson's Corner, Virginia August 31 - September 1,1995 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Testimony of Mr. William Nezowy James Mann: Next witness, William Nezowy. Mr. Nezowy is with the American Ukrainian Political Action Council of the United States. Mr. Nezowy: Thank you Mr. Chairman. I want to get back to 1979, when I became interested in the Demjanjuk case, and the OSI. Actually, from the beginning, Henry Kissinger initiated the OSI, with the Soviet government, claimIng it would help the United States find Nazi war criminals or collaborators. Well, anyone from eastern Europe, be it Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, were all "collaborators", because the Nazis took 'em to work. Forced labor. So everyone was a collaborator, because they were building war machinery. The OSI was set up, after hearings in Congress. Elizabeth Holtzmann and Josh Eilberg, were the key to the Holtzman amendment that was passed on Dec. 19, 1979. Mrs. Holtzman actually lied, during the hearings, to all of those who were in Congress at the time. She said that, once OSI was in effect, everything would be fully guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. No one would be deported from this country without hearings, and without the right to confront witnesses from the Soviet Union. Well, this never happened. An early OSI victim was Tscherim Soobzokov, a Circassian, who lived in Paterson, New Jersey. The New York Times published a story about a Nazi living in Paterson, New Jersey. Soon, busloads of Jewish Defense Leaguers were coming out to break his windows, to protest in front of his home. They held the hearings in Newark, N.J., and he was found innocent of any wrongdoings. But what happened to Soobzokov, is that they had finished him off with a pipebomb, first with an explosion of an automobile that blew up and went on fire. He heard this noise and he went out to examine. By the time he opened the door, he, too, was mortally wounded. And the claim by the JDL was, that it was Jewish justice. But the OSI created the environment. We'll take Mikaula Kowalchuk, a Ukrainian from Philadelphia. He was about 13 or 14 years old, when these crimes were supposed to have taken place in Ukraine, in the Jewish ghetto. The Immigration and Naturalization Service investigated him thoroughly. And, after a few years, they gave him his citizenship, they couldn't find anything wrong. But 1979: OSI comes along, Allan Ryan and Neal Sher, who became the director after Allan Ryan. They haunted him. For 17 years, Mikaula Kowalchuk was hounded; his family was destroyed. The court found him innocent, insufficient evidence to take his citizenship away. Fyodor Fedorenko, who Mr. Sheftel mentioned earlier, was double-crossed by Neal Sher, the Director of OSI, because the Demjanjuk family wanted to use Fedorenko as a witness. Now, that would have killed the Demjanjuk case, if Fedorenko would have appeared as a witness. So Neal Sher, connivingly convinced Mr. Fedorenko that he should go back to Ukraine, that amnesty was declared for him, and that he could live with his family, happily, for the rest of his life. Well, Fedorenko went along with Neal Sher, because Neal Sher threatened to appeal his acquittal in Florida. Sher said, "You can save yourself a lot of money, because we're going to get you in the end." So Fedorenko accepted. He believed Ukraine had declared amnesty for him. Well, as most of you may know, Fedorenko was executed by the KGB, in Ukraine. Now for several years, the OSI, when they alleged that you were a war criminal or a collaborator, they used to have these civil hearings. First of all, we must remember that they are looking for criminals. They investigate you as a criminal. But the Holtzman amendment, does not allow a criminal trial, you don't have a jury, you have civil proceedings. But even that changed, beginning with Arthur Rudolph, whom you all know; the United States put men on the moon in a Saturn rocket, through the help of Arthur Rudolph, a German scientist. What they did to Arthur Rudolph, and what they're doing today, is to not have any civil proceedings or hearings. They want you to sign an application or an agreement, agreeing to everything that OSI says. They come in, and they try to convince you. That "we're going to get you anyway. Our record is perfect. Nobody gets away from us. We get everyone that we have suspicions of." They told Arthur Rudolph that they had many witnesses against him, that would certify that he was a Nazi war criminal. They also tell you that the citizenship derivative that the family has will be revoked: They, too, will be denaturalized and deported, into Germany, in this case. Now Arthur Rudolph thought it over. An elderly man now. He decided, "Well, I will not get Social Security, I will have to pay for my hearings, I have to obtain an attorney. I'll sign this agreement." Now, this agreement states that you agreed to everything that they have said. You also agree not to sue the OSI. You're [assured] that your wife and children will remain in the United States, you will get your Social Security, all you have to do, is to sign on the dotted line, and have a date of departure. And these are the agreements that the OSI uses today. So, it's very tragic, that the Congress has permitted, for so many years, since 1979, such an abuse of power by the Justice Department. Mark Richard, the head of the Criminal Division, who is Assistent Deputy Attorney General, is the most dangerous man that there is. He had open hearings conducted by the Office of Responsibility of the Justice Department, to check into the Demjanjuk case. And nothing's come up. We're still waiting for it, six years later. But Mark Richard is always involved. Neal Sher ran around the world, to open up foreign branches of OSI. Australia started listening, but they gave it up. They no longer have a commission to investigate so-called Nazi criminals. They found out, that this is all a farce. Britain: the House of Lords refused, even after Neal Sher spent three days trying to convince the British government to have this kind of a commission, to call in Nazi war criminals and deport them out of England. Three days later, when he left for the United States, Mr. Rudenko, the procurator-general of the U.S.S.R. at the time, arrived in England, to try to convince them that this was necessary, and he wanted to immediately deport 12,000 Ukrainians! Canada had a few trials, but nobody was deported. There was insufficient evidence, to really say any man was guilty of a crime. Being a guard, doesn't necessarily mean you went and killed anybody. Seventy-nine persons have been denaturalized or removed from the United States by the OSI, since 1979. It's cost the taxpayers multi-millions of dollars. But here, no one's concerned about the deficit. They can spend multi-millions of dollars, to deport 79 innocent victims. These are not "prosecutors," they are persecutors. I've talked, in person, to 45 senators and members of Congress. And I must say to you: what many of them told me, was that if they got involved in this, or sponsored a bill to investigate the OSI, they would no longer be in office next year, because of AIPAC. AIPAC is the American-Israeli Political Action Committee. They represent the interests of Israel. They are the ones pushing OSI. Them, and the ADL, and the World Jewish Congress. There are a lot of Jewish people that are embarrassed by what's going on with the Zionist organizations. We held independent hearings on the OSI in the historical First U.S. Bank in Independence Mall, in Philadelphia. The presiding chairman, a very important Afro-American, was Samuel L. Evans. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark was a key witness. We had various witnesses, victims, or the victims' family. After we edited this 880-page book of the proceedings and included certain documents as exhibits, we came to Washington. We made appointments. All 535 members of Congress received the proceedings. And I say to you, that what shocks me, again, is that Congress is numb. What has happened to the judicial system? We read the inscription on the United States Supreme Court: "equal justice under law." We can scratch it out, or fill it in with cement. There is no equal justice. A search for the truth, would include examination of the pattern of corrupt activity in the Department of Justice, over a long period of time, such as the vicious persecution of John Demjanjuk, by the Office of Special Investigations, under Mark Richard; the targetting of African-American elected officials, the politically motivated targetting of others. But this is not a search for truth! Let's go to Mr Artukovic. Mr. Artukovic had cirrhosis of the brain, and Alzheimer's disease. When the OSI came to "capture" him, he was in the kitchen, his nurse was feeding him. He didn't know if it was daytime or nighttime. She was force-feeding him, to have a meal. Overhead, they had a government helicopter hovering. They had U.S. marshals. They had Army equipment there. I don't know what for; this was an unarmed man. They came in armed, with the guns drawn, told the nurse to get in another room while they grabbed some clothing that belonged to Mr. Artukovic, tied him onto a stretcher, and off they went, and he wound up in the Kansas City Prison, which has a hospital. He was deported to Yugoslavia, where he died in jail. Now, Mr. Linnas, Karl Linnas: He was an Estonian, who, they alleged and said, was a camp commander in Estonia, of a Nazi concentration camp. Now, gentlemen: Would the Nazis have picked a foreigner to be a commander of a camp? We know that's a lie. What happened to Linnas? They kept him in The Tombs in New York City, until they put him on a plane and took him to Russia, not even to Estonia. And there, in the hospital, he was butchered. He died,about 15 minutes after his daughter and Ramsey Clark visited him. But, they weren't able to talk to him, because he didn't understand anything except Estonian. The people guarding him, they didn't understand Estonian. His daughter never had a chance to say goodbye. And this is what OSI is all about. James Mann: Mr. Nezowy, your dedication to the cause of human rights is obvious. To what extent, is your experience, your research and your meetings, included in this volume that we've received in evidence? Mr. Nezowy: What you've received, for the record, are the full proceedings of our hearings on the OSI. *************************************************************************** Will Zuzak; DEMANUK.022 = Nezowy Testimony; Sept. 1, 1995; 1995-12-04 Posted on the Internet by Stefan Lemieszewski ***************************************************************************