Adolf Eichmann

On this day: Adolf Eichmann captured in Argentina by Mossad

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.
Declassified documents about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who fled to Argentina after World War II.

Argentina declassifies 1,850 documents about Nazi activities in the country

 EICHMANN: THE Devil Speaks.

Opera brings Eichmann’s trial to the stage in dramatic world premiere

 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Milei to open Argentina’s Nazi ratline archives, urged to reveal Holocaust records


60 years ago, Adolf Eichmann abducted by Mossad, brought to Israel

Eichmann was the only person in Israel's history to be executed by the state.

Eichmann

There’s a long history of Jews playing Nazis on screen

Here’s a look at some of the most famous times Jews played Nazis.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

Book review: Life and death choices

Ordinary people make heart-wrenching decisions about rescuing Jews in the darkest times.

GETTING ON the train meant survival.

Brazilian veteran Jewish journalist Salomao Schvartzman dies at 85

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.

A man checks his mobile phone as a woman riding a bike passes next to a big Brazilian flag in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 28, 2018.

Olmert to honor Rafi Eitan at TLV event

Former Mossad agent Avner Avraham to share new details of Eichmann capture

Avner Avraham at the opening of the Operation Finale exhibit in the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 2017.

Book review: A cold and divided capital

Zvi Jagendorf’s latest novel takes readers on a journey through the hearts and streets of Jerusalem in 1961.

A view of Jerusalem’s Old City in the late 1950s

Eichmann prosecutor: Eyewitness testimony from within the gas chambers

Because of the extraordinary circumstances, the survivor was an otherwise impossible-to-obtain eyewitness actually from within the Auschwitz gas chambers.

Gabriel Bach, former Supreme Court justice and chief investigator and co-prosecutor of the 1961 Eichmann trial.

Eichmann prosecutor discusses trial, modern extremism

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.

Adolf Eichmann sits during his trial in Jerusalem, 1961.

Khashoggi’s death was an ‘Operation Eichmann’ Gone Bad

According to sources, Khashoggi was not choked, but stopped breathing after he was drugged to get him from Turkey back to his home country.

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in his palace in Saudia Arabia

A noble gesture

Wiesel wanted to cover the Adolf Eichmann trial, but the editor felt that as an Auschwitz survivor, the trial would be too personal for him and he would not be able to write with objectivity.

Elie Wiesel making a speech