Adolf Eichmann was one of the key figures responsible for the Holocaust. He was a lieutenant colonel in the feared Nazi SS unit. He received official orders from Reinhardt Heydrich, the SS Commander, to manage and facilitate the transportation and logistics of deporting Jews from their ghettos and to the extermination camps. He was captured in 1960 by the Mossad and was hanged a couple of years afterward after being tried in an Israeli court.
'This was the end of a complex operation by the Mossad and the Shin Bet, far from Israeli territory, in a foreign and unfamiliar environment'
Eichmann was the only person in Israel's history to be executed by the state.
Here’s a look at some of the most famous times Jews played Nazis.
Ordinary people make heart-wrenching decisions about rescuing Jews in the darkest times.
Schvartzman, who spoke only Yiddish with his parents, fought relentlessly against anti-Semitism. He considered coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in 1961 a highlight of his career.
Former Mossad agent Avner Avraham to share new details of Eichmann capture
Zvi Jagendorf’s latest novel takes readers on a journey through the hearts and streets of Jerusalem in 1961.
Because of the extraordinary circumstances, the survivor was an otherwise impossible-to-obtain eyewitness actually from within the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Justice Gabriel Bach was born in Germany before coming to Palestine. He served as one of three prosecutors in the in trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
According to sources, Khashoggi was not choked, but stopped breathing after he was drugged to get him from Turkey back to his home country.
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