'Ivan' despair

Monday 02 August 1993 23:02 BST
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AHolocaust survivor, Yaakov Weinberger, tried to kill himself in despair at the acquittal of John Demjanjuk on charges of being the Treblinka gas-chamber operator, 'Ivan the Terrible', AFP reports from Jerusalem. Mr Wein burger, who lost all his family in the Holocaust, took an overdose of tranquillisers.

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