Israeli agents capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

More than 4,500 Jewish displaced persons and Holocaust survivors sailed from France toward British-mandate Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947. British naval forces intercepted the ship on July 18 and...

The State of Israel declared independence as the British Mandate ended. Holocaust survivors were among those who sought refuge and rebuilt lives there, after years of blocked routes and...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin had campaigned to name and prohibit...

West Germany, Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany concluded agreements on compensation for survivors of Nazi persecution and support for Israel’s integration of...

The Knesset passed the Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Law, establishing Yad Vashem as Israel’s Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Authority. The law directed the institution to commemorate Jewish...

The trial of Adolf Eichmann opened in Jerusalem. Prosecutors presented documents and extensive survivor testimony, bringing witnesses’ accounts into international public view. The proceedings helped...

After finding Eichmann guilty of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to death. The judgment addressed an organizer...

Eichmann was hanged after his conviction and appeals. His trial and execution did not end the broader impunity of many perpetrators or answer all claims for restitution. The public record from the...

President Jimmy Carter established a commission chaired by survivor and writer Elie Wiesel to recommend how the United States should remember and teach the Holocaust. The commission proposed a...

President Carter signed Public Law 96-388, establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The council was charged with creating a national museum, organizing Days of Remembrance, and...