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My Campaign for Justice for John Demjanjuk By Jerome A. Brentar 1993 John Demjanjuk’s vindication — culminating in his recent reunion with his family in the United States — has special meaning for Jerome Brentar (pictured left). For more than a decade, this deeply religious man of Croatian ancestry and anti-Communist conviction has devoted countless hours of his own time and considerable money from his own pocket to help defend the Ukrainian-American auto worker. This was not the first such case in which Brentar had played an important role. In the earlier case of Frank Walus, Brentar dug up evidence that proved to be of crucial importance in exonerating the Polish-born American. It was only after a protracted and devastating legal ordeal that Walus, who has gratefully called Brentar “my s...