When Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann escaped from the Allied forces that had captured him after World War II, he disappeared and was presumed dead by some — but Israel’s first Prime Minister David ...

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The trial of Adolf Eichmann was adjourned today until August 3 following completion by Dr. Robert Servatius, Eichmann’s chief defense counsel, of his defense of the former Gestapo colonel charged with ...

After a weeks recess, providing a period of preparation for the defense, the Adolf Eichmann trial was ready to resume here tomorrow morning, with the accused himself scheduled for the witness chair.

For the Eichmann trial's 50th anniversary, Emory Holocaust studies professor Lipstadt (History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving) trains her gaze on this watershed event in Jewish history.

Today, April 11, marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Israel, a watershed moment in Jewish history. The Eichmann trial was the first time in 2,000 years that Jews, ...

After Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann, they had a problem: his body. Not wanting to harbor the mass murderer’s remains, the government had an oven factory manufacture a one-time use furnace to cremate ...

(JTA) Yosef Kleinman, the youngest Holocaust survivor to testify at the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, has died at 91. Kleinman, who lived in Jerusalem, died May 4, according to Akiva Weisz, a ...

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Israel. Eichmann is the only person to have been executed under Israel’s death penalty. Aliza Goldman, a Holocaust survivor and translator who assisted in the ...