The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung invite you to a seminar by Dr Tamir Hod on the Demjanjuk affair of the 1980s and 1990s. Dr Hod will explore the trial and eventual acquittal of Ukrainian-American John Ivan Demanjuk. Demanjuk was extradited to Israel on suspicion of being “Ivan the Terrible” a notorious concentration camp guard at Treblinka.

Dr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. His doctoral thesis was about the Demjanjuk trial in Israel, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka, which was also the title of his first book. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. At the moment, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit, which was founded in 1960, was mainly comprised of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials against Nazi criminals and their collaborators in many countries around the world. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at the Tel Hai Academic College and at the Western Galilee Academic College.

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