Adolf Eichmann

Grapevine: Ringing hollow

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli police flank Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS colonel who headed the Gestapo's Jewish Section and was responsible for millions of Jews' deaths in Nazi concentration camps, as he stands trial inside a bulletproof booth in a Jerusalem court
Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

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.

|ByARIELA OHRENSTEIN
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

Until now, documentation related to the activities of Nazi leaders in Argentina could only be viewed in a specially designated room at the National Archives.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
EICHMANN: THE Devil Speaks.

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

The opera dramatizes the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the central architects of the Holocaust.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Capital punishment for terrorists: Theoretically defensible but not wise - opinion

Throughout Israel's history, only one person has ever been executed by the Israeli judicial system - Adolf Eichmann.

FEBRUARY 22, 2023ByERIC S. SHERBY
SUPPORTERS OF Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally to celebrate the shooting attack at the Ilka Bar in Tel Aviv, in the southern Gaza Strip, last April

Grapevine: Standing with six million

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

FEBRUARY 3, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem.

Israeli docuseries with never-before-heard confessions from Adolf Eichmann comes to Amazon Prime

“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” is a three-part documentary series that combines interviews about Eichmann, whom Israel executed in 1962

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
NAZI WAR criminal Adolf Eichmann sits at a desk inside his prison cell in Israel, 1961. To mark the 60th anniversary of his execution, KAN 11 aired a new series that brings to light important documentation of Eichmann’s admission of his guilt.

Israeli Mossad spymaster Rafi Eitan reveals his exploits - review

Mossad operative Rafi Eitan’s wild exploits and constantly changing views make pigeonholing him impossible.

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByCOLIN SCHINDLER
ADOLF EICHMANN’S false Red Cross identitity document, used to enter Argentina under the alias Ricardo Klement in 1950.

Holocaust denial spreading in the US -opinion

There has been interest by a still small number of academically educated, intellectual and political figures willing to participate in Holocaust “revisionism.”

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByDANIEL S. GROSS
NAZI WAR criminal Adolf Eichmann sits at a desk inside his prison cell in Israel, 1961. To mark the 60th anniversary of his execution, KAN 11 aired a new series that brings to light important documentation of Eichmann’s admission of his guilt.

The long-lost Adolf Eichmann recordings shown in new documentary

"I am 100% convinced Eichmann had no mercy for anyone... he was a sworn Nazi through and through."

JUNE 17, 2022ByDUDI PATIMER
THE DEVIL speaks: ‘The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes.’

Eichmann docuseries and a new Tel Aviv sitcom - new on Israeli TV

Disney+ launches in Israel on June 16 and it is now possible to sign up for a full year or shorter package

JUNE 15, 2022ByHANNAH BROWN
EICHMANN: THE Devil Speaks.

Why my father’s yahrzeit falls on Adolf Eichmann’s execution date - opinion

More than anything else my father, Yoav Botach, taught me to be a fighter for the Jewish people.

MAY 23, 2022BySHMULEY BOTEACH
ADOLF EICHMANN listens to court proceedings at his trial in Jerusalem, in 1961. The following year, he was executed after being found guilty for crimes against humanity.

Eichmann prosecutor and Supreme Court justice Gabriel Bach dies

Bach was born in Germany in 1927 as Gert Gabriel Bach, and grew up in Berlin under Nazi rule.

FEBRUARY 18, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Former Supreme Court judge and prosecuter Gabrial Bach, seen during an event marking the 55th anniversary of the Eichmann Trial, hosted by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2016.

The Mossad man behind Eichmann's capture - interview

My final question was to ask him how he would like to be remembered. He answered quietly: “As a servant of my country."

DECEMBER 22, 2021ByDVORA WAYSMAN
A SKETCH of Adolf Eichmann superimposed over a map of part of South America.