Transcripts from Adolf Eichmann trial

Identifier
irn552830
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.482.1
Dates
1 Jan 1961 - 31 Dec 1961
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn552830

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michel Levant

Gift of Michel Levant, 2016.

Scope and Content

Documents, mimeographed, from the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1961. Includes text of the opening address by the prosecution (Gideon Hausner), and minutes of sessions 15 and 16 of the trial. The documents were collected by Michel Levant, while he was an observer at the trial. Levant's family had emigrated from France prior to the German invasion in 1940, and he later served in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of Brigadier General, and was on active duty with the Air Force while he was observing the Eichmann Trial.

Subjects

  • War crime trials--Israel--Sources.
  • Eichmann, Adolf,--1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Genre

  • Transcripts.
  • Document
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