Adolf Eichmann

אדולף אוטו אייכמן

Adolf Otto Eichmann

Identifier: 000564
Dates: 1906-1962
Type of Entity: Person

History

German SS officer in charge of “Jewish affairs” at the Security Service from 1935. From 1941 he was the head of the Jewish Affairs Department of the Reich Security Main Office and he was in charge of deportations from various European destinations to ghettos and death camps. In March 1944 he arrived in Budapest with his special unit and they arranged the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. After the war he fled to Argentina. Israeli agents abducted him in 1960 and took him to Jerusalem, where he was tried and he was executed in 1962.

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Als Arzt am jüdischen Krankenhaus zu Breslau 1906 - 1943
1. Documentary Material
- Památník Terezín
- A 1855
- Multiple
- Updated 10 years ago
Postwar memories about Terezín of Siegmung Hadda M.D.
Correspondence with Adler-Rudel, Salomon
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/40
- English
- 4 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding the 60th birthday of Adler-Rudel as well as an inquiry concerning information on the potential death Adolf Eichmann.
Correspondence with Associated Television Ltd.
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/90
- English
- 11 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding the return of some Hitler photographs, institutional advice for compensation claims, and the involvement of The Wiener Library in a certain programme developed on occasion of the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Correspondence with Comité International d’Auschwitz (CIA)
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/288
- English
- 77 items
- Updated 6 years ago
The correspondence - with CIA general secretary Hermann Langbein almost exclusively - covers various issues. This includes a CIA conference at the Auschwitz memorial site (1957); information and material requests on numerous perpetrators (among others C. Clauberg, A. Beckerle, A. Boger, A. Eichmann, E. Veesenmeyer, F. Rademacher, F. Benzler, A. Brunner and J. Mengele); postwar trials of perpetrators and Auschwitz related eyewitness accounts; mutual assistance on practical issues, for instance access to Library’s press surveys, finding an English translator for the memoirs of Rudolf Höss (1...
Correspondence with Draper, Gerald Irving Anthony Dare
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/351
- English
- 4 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann.
Correspondence with El Mundo - Ernesto Bonasso
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/379
- English
- 2 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
A request to write an article about the Wiener Library in connection with the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as an unaddressed project outline for a publication on the extermination of Jews and the role Eichmann played in it.
Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/82
- English, Hebrew
- pages 5 Official documentation Reports Letter Typewritten copy xerox
- Updated 10 years ago
Documentation regarding deportations of Jews from Vienna and Prague, October 1939 - Orders from Adolf Eichmann to place the senior Jewish leaders, Berthold Storfer, Boschen, Richard Friedmann, Benjamin Murmelstein, Jakob Edelstein and Mauricy Gruen as the organizers of the first transport, which was thought of as the "Exemplary Transport"; it was said that the deportees were being sent to Maehrish-Osttrau; Correspondence between Dr. Loewenherz and the Zentralstelle fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) from Austria in Vienna regarding substituting Robert Prochni...
Notes to the memorandum, "Bemerkungen zum Gedenkprotokoll", of Dr. J. H. Koerner, SA regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/33
- English, Hebrew
- pages 10 Official documentation Protocol Original
- Updated 10 years ago
Notes to the memorandum, "Bemerkungen zum Gedenkprotokoll", of Dr. J. H. Koerner, SA regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937 Notes on the memorandum of Dr. J.H. Koepness regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937; - The main body of the memorandum deals with the question of the involvement of the leaders in Chancellor Karl Schuschnigg's struggles against the takeover of Austria by Germany and Schuschnigg's appeal to the Jews of Austria to provide financial and political a...
Notizen aus der Besprechung am 10.10.41 über die Lösung von Judenfragen
1. Documentary Material
- Památník Terezín
- A 1002; A 1236
- Multiple
- 1941
- Updated 10 years ago
Notice about Solution ot the Jewish Question in the Protectorate
Official documentation regarding the solution of the "Jewish Question", the Umwandererzentralstelle (UMZ- Center for Emigration Matters) and members of the Nazi party in Guatemala and the status of the Nazi jurists during the war and afterwards
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/152
- English, Hebrew
- 1933-1974
- pages 113 Placards Study Research article Official documentation Reports Original Typewritten original xerox
- Updated 10 years ago
Official documentation regarding the solution of the "Jewish Question", the Umwandererzentralstelle (UMZ- Center for Emigration Matters) and members of the Nazi party in Guatemala and the status of the Nazi jurists during the war and afterwards - Suggestions for the solution of the "Jewish Question" in Warhtegau that were discussed in the office of the Reichstatthalterei (Reich governor), July 1941: maximum concentration of Jews in labor camps and ghettos; liquidation of those unfit for labor; sterilization of women; - Center for Emigration Matters; - List of members of the Nazi party in Gu...
Osobní vzpomínka na pobyt v koncentr. Táborech v Terezíně a Wulkowě (Něm.)
1. Documentary Material
- Památník Terezín
- A 79 / 2
- Multiple
- 1942
- Updated 10 years ago
Memoirs of Heinz Propper [25.4.1914, Praha]
Plan for the establishment of a central office for the transfer of nations from Eastern and Southeastern Europe after the war, including a solution for the "Jewish Question"
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/86.a
- English, Hebrew
- pages 9 Reports Official documentation Typewritten copy xerox
- Updated 10 years ago
Plan for the establishment of a central office for the transfer of nations from Eastern and Southeastern Europe after the war, including a solution for the "Jewish Question" Plan for the establishment of a central office to handle the transfer of "unwanted" population originating from the nations of Eastern Europe and Eastern-Western [Europe] who are not part of the Aryan race from the Umwanderungszentralstelle (areas under German occupation); the plan will be carried out along with the solution to the "Jewish Question" after the war; the plan was presented to Hermann Krumey, Ehrlich and Ad...
Report issued by Dr. Loewenherz based on a diary of meetings between Lowenherz and Adolf Eichmann and his assistants, 1938-1945
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/52
- English, Hebrew
- 1938-1945
- pages 45 Diary Survey report Official documentation Typewritten copy
- Updated 10 years ago
Report issued by Dr. Loewenherz based on a diary of meetings between Lowenherz and Adolf Eichmann and his assistants, 1938-1945 The main portion of the report concentrates on emigration, personal pressure and Eichmann's threats to speed up emigration of the Jews from Austria; description of Lowenherz' efforts to moderate Eichmann's decrees, the feeling of gloom pervading the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; damages to person and to property; pressures imposed on Lowenherz such as detention, house-arrest, threats of personal sanctions against him after discovery of the "Baum Group" Affair, the...
Report-summary of the period written by Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1946
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/53
- English, Hebrew
- 1938-1946
- Official documentation Survey report Personal documents Handwritten, original
- Updated 10 years ago
Report-summary of the period written by Dr. Josef Loewenherz, 1946 The report is a type of summary-reconstuction of the events and developments experienced by Austrian Jewry from 1938 until the end of the war. It is divided into three stages and is both a general and a personal summary in which Loewenherz confronts his critics. This is a general survey of the activities of the Vienna Jewish community; the days of the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany); violent harassment, confiscation of property, mass arrests including of the leaders, deportations and anti-Jewish legislation...
Review of events and happenings regarding the situation of Austrian Jewry, 1938-1944, and personal notes and evaluations made by the reviewer
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/18
- English, Hebrew
- 1938-1946
- pages 8 Survey report Official documentation Handwritten, original
- Updated 10 years ago
Review of events and happenings regarding the situation of Austrian Jewry, 1938-1944, and personal notes and evaluations made by the reviewer - Summary description of the events and happenings that determined the fate of the Jews of Austria from the Anschluss (Annexation to the Reich), 1938, to the liquidation of Austrian Jewry through emigration abroad of most of the Jews and deportation of Jews to concentration and extermination camps (with the exception of Jews who had intermarried and the children of intermarriages). The review includes: statistical data, anti-Jewish legislation, mass d...
Single issue of "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt - Wien" regarding the publication of income tax regulations for Jews and Mischehen (children of mixed marriages), 17 December 1943
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/168
- English, Hebrew
- pages 3 Newspaper clippings Letter Typewritten copy Original
- Updated 10 years ago
Single issue of "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt - Wien" regarding the publication of income tax regulations for Jews and Mischehen (children of mixed marriages), 17 December 1943 Also in the file: -Copy of a letter written by Dr. Ball-Kadouri mentioning the testimony given by Erich Liepmann regarding Eichmann's orders, from 1939, to publish the "Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt" on a regular basis, 24 June 1956.
Statistics regarding the Jews of Germany, Ostmark and the Protectorate, and anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1941
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/35
- English, Hebrew
- pages 31 Survey report Official documentation Typewritten copy xerox
- Updated 10 years ago
Statistics regarding the Jews of Germany, Ostmark and the Protectorate, and anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1941 - Statistical data regarding the Jews of Germany, Austria and Bohemia-Moravia (the Protectorate), 1933-1941, presented by Dr. Josef Loewenherz, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna to Adolph Eichmann, Director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna. The statistics include: the financial situation of the community, the population, organizations, emigration, spread of the ages, professional retraining and an estimate of the value of personal property. The statist...
Stato giuridico degli italiani di origine ebraica, Adolf Eichmann
1. Commissione parlamentare di inchiesta sulle cause dell'occultamento di fascicoli relativi a crimini nazifascisti
- Juridical status of Italian of Jewish Origin; Adolf Eichmann
- Archivio Storico della Camera dei Deputati
- 107/44
- Italian
- 1961
- Non disponibile.
- Updated 6 years ago
Materiale proveniente dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e concernente: Criminali di guerra. Maria Pasquinelli, Anna Cattani. Ex internati a Torricelle Peligna (Chieti). Richieste informazioni su misure dicriminatorie. Ex campo di internamento di Potenza. Skorzeni Otto. Parte generale. Collaboratori ambasciata tedesca a Roma. Dollmann Utti Rohleder e altri. Stato giuridico italiani di origine ebraica. Console jugoslavo Pedrag Grabovac. Internamento di polacchi. Ex colonnello nazista Adolfo Eichmann. Ex maggiore delle SS austriache Walter Reder, criminale di guerra.
Weekly reports submitted by the Chairman of the Jewish Community, Dr. Josef Loewenherz, to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/34
- English, Hebrew
- pages 443 Survey report List of murdered persons Official documentation Typewritten copy xerox
- Updated 10 years ago
Weekly reports submitted by the Chairman of the Jewish Community, Dr. Josef Loewenherz, to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna The reports deal with emigration matters including statistical data, the condition of the community, and troubles regarding financial resources and logistical problems adversely affecting an increase in the rate of emigration to the South American countries. - Report of discussions with Adolf Eichmann and Theodor Dannecker regarding emigration; - Directive from Berlin regarding a halt in aliya to Eretz Israel, May 1940; - Complaints from the Hanseatis...