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Date

1960CE

1960–1962

The Jerusalem trial placed survivor testimony at the center of Israeli culture.

Antisemitism and persecutionArt and culture31.7772°N 35.2350°E
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Into the Present: each bar is an event of the period; this one is in coral.

Sourced narrative

Each block is a verifiable statement. The number opens the cited page; amber or coral blocks flag tradition or contested interpretation.

4 statements

01Evidence and context

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Adolf Eichmann's Jerusalem trial ran from April 11 to August 16, 1961.

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Eichmann lived in Argentina as Ricardo Klement until the Mossad abducted him in 1960.

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He was convicted on all 15 charges and hanged on the night of May 31 to June 1, 1962. His ashes were scattered at sea.

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Survivor testimony, much of it heard for the first time, made empathy for the victims more central to Israeli culture.

Context

Adolf Eichmann's Jerusalem trial ran from April 11 to August 16, 1961. Eichmann lived in Argentina as Ricardo Klement until the Mossad abducted him in 1960.

§ 01Geography

Where it happened

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§ 02Museum

Objects and images

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§ 04Network

Connections

    § 05Bibliography

    Further reading

    • Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: Owl Books, 1991).

      Israelis and the Holocaust · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517

    § 06Apparatus

    Sources on this page

    1. 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 468inspect
    2. 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 468inspect
    3. 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 468inspect
    4. 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 468inspect
    • Documented evidenceAttested by contemporary evidence: texts, inscriptions, coins, papyri or archaeology.
    • Scholarly reconstructionHistorians' inference from indirect evidence.
    • Tradition or narrativeA literary, traditional or religious account; significant in itself, but not independently verified.
    • Contested interpretationScholars explicitly disagree; see the positions in the debate.
    • Illustrative reconstructionA hypothesis or visual scheme to guide reading; not a historical claim.