Articles regarding the Eichmann trial collected during the 1960s as preparation for the "Hungarian Communities Registry"
- Article by Sós Endre regarding Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele published in the "Új Élet" newspaper, 15 July 1960;
- Article by Dr. Ilona Benoschofsky regarding Adolf Eichmann and Edmund Veesenmayer published in the "Új Élet" newspaper, 15 August 1961;
- Article by Lévai Jenő regarding the Nazis that worked with Adolf Eichmann and regarding Hans Globke and published in the "Új Élet" newspaper in the 1960s;
- Article by Dr. Ilona Benoschofsky regarding the Eichmann trial...
TR.12 - Gideon Hausner Collection: The prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial, 1960-1965
In the Record Group there is a collection submitted to Yad Vashem by Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial. The Record Group includes protocols from the Eichmann Trial, files of documentation gathered by the prosecution in preparation for and during the trial, correspondence between the prosecution and various bodies, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the trial. The Record Group also includes a detailed psychological opinion regarding Eichmann.
Type of Material : Protocol, Correspondence, Record of Murdered Persons, Legal Documentation, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Record of Persecuted Persons, Record of Survivors, Survey Report
Testimony of Jozsef Weisz, born in Barabas, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Barabas, Budapest, Debrecen and Tirgusor
His childhood in an agricultural family; life in the home of his grandfather; attends a Hungarian school and a Jewish high school; displays of antisemitism; meets refugees from Austria, 1938; detention of his father who is accused of treason; release of his father; receives knowledge concerning the fate of Jews in Poland; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions including numerus clausus and the ban of travel on [public] transportation; deportation of refugees; draft to labor camps,...
Testimony of Dora Deborah Eilat Plawes, born in Wien, Austria, 1924, regarding the persecution of Austrian Jews and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939
Family background, only daughter; her parents are immigrants from Poland; Hebrew studies; studies in an Austrian school.
The Anschluss; the beginning of hostile treatment on the part of the local population; the witness winning the competition at school and not receiving the prize due to her being a Jewish; joining the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement; Zionism; the arrival of Eichmann in the youth movement; Kristallnacht riots; the arrest of her father on...
Testimony of Chaim Dan Shimshovitz, born in Botiza, Romania, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Oradea Ghetto, Hungarian labor camps, Mauthausen and more
Childhood in Botiza; connection to Vizhnitz hasidism; from an ultra-Orthodox home; learns in a yeshiva in the Carpathian area; family moves to Oradea, 1929; drafted into the Romanian Army, 1936.
Hungarian occupation, 1940; exemption from being drafted into Hungarian Army labor battalions; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Oradea Ghetto, 1944; deportation to a Hungarian Army labor camp in Stanislawow, Poland; transfer to a labor camp near...
Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Volume 66; Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961
Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt":
- Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the...
File Number : 66
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators
Documentation from trials conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators, 1961
Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt":
- Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht...
File Number : 60
Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation, Official Documentation
Testimony of Eva (Mekynova) Hefer, born in Trinec, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in Frydek, Ostrava and Theresienstadt
Life before the war; daughter of a non-Jewish father and a Jewish mother; re-annexation to Poland; move to Hutin; move to Moravska Ostrava; move to Frydek;
German occupation, March 1939; information regarding imminent deportation to Theresienstadt; setting up a hiding place; escape to Ostrava; life in Ostrava; deportation to Theresienstadt, September 1942; camp life; release from deportation to Treblinka; transfer to the youth barracks; filming of a movie...
Testimony of Nachum Blatt, born in Rezekne, Latvia, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Rezekne Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and Danzig
Life in Rezekne before the war; Hashomer Hatzair activities.
Outbreak of the war; work manufacturing artificial coal; deportation to the Rezekne Ghetto; "Aktions"; murder of his parents; deportation to forced labor; visit of Adolf Eichmann; murder of Judenrat members and Jewish policemen; liquidation of the Rezekne Ghetto; deportation to Kaiserwald by truck; camp life including construction labor; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Stutthof by boat; life in...