EVENT INFORMATION

11
April
1961

Eichmann trial opens in Jerusalem

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📅 11 April 1961 📍 Israël

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 shift public knowledge from a largely documentary record toward testimony about lived experience, while also raising questions about national jurisdiction and how a Jewish state represented a people targeted across many countries.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Adolf Eichmann

Gideon Hausner

Holocaust survivors who testified

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Jerusalem District Court

Government of Israel