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Eichmann Trial -- Session 59 -- Witness Joel Brand testifies re. negotiations with Eichmann

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.072 | Film ID: 2071

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    Eichmann Trial -- Session 59 -- Witness Joel Brand testifies re. negotiations with Eichmann

    Overview

    Description
    Session 59. Joel Brand being questioned again. 00:01:12 Cuts out, starts from beginning again - the Wehrmacht's role in the destruction of the Jews. Talk of Bandi Grosz, Hungarian Jewish quadruple agent. 00:05:22 to 00:06:32 Court has break. Between 00:06:32 and 00:10:54 The court is preparing itself. Mr. Brand is looking at "Report of the Jewish Rescue Committee" - asked by Judge Halevi to read certain pages. Brand claims the report to be untrue. 00:19:33 Brand is challenged as to why he went to Turkey, what he thought of Eichmann's deal. 00:24:45 Asked about the Hagana, the Jewish self-defense organization. 00:29:27 Discuss Jewish property and Officer Becher becoming rich by plundering Jews. 00:34:31 Judge Halevi finishes, now Brand is questioned by the Presiding Judge. Questioned on the telegraphs Brand received about the Hungarian deportations. 00:37:47 Queries over the "pleading with Jews" over numbers killed and necessity of the mission. He informed many countries and no one listened or believed what was going on. 00:41:40 Wants to hear about Lord Moyne, explains about the conversations and interrogations with the British about whether the Nazis would really let the Jews go as promised. Moyne asked "what shall I do with one million Jews?" 00:49:38 Attorney General wants to see Brand's certificate of Judenrat. Asked about other certificates which provided benefits for Jews in Budapest (ie. freedom of movement). Questioned on the exclusion of Reszö Kasztner [Rudolf Kastner], Brand negotiating with Eichmann alone whilst Kasztner spoke with Wisliceny. 00:59:33 Talks about whether Kasztner was excluded from Eichmann. 01:02:29 Dr. Servatius asked Brand why he had not mentioned the proposal to blow up installations of Auschwitz to Mr. Shertok. Brand says he did, but report isn't thorough.
    Film Title
    Eichmann Trial
    Duration
    01:04:04
    Date
    Event:  1961 May 31
    Production:  1961 May 31
    Locale
    Jerusalem, Israel
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Contributor
    Director: Leo Hurwitz
    Producer: Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation
    Subject: Rudolf Kasztner
    Producer: Milton Fruchtman
    Camera Operator: J. Kalach
    Camera Operator: Emil Knebel
    Camera Operator: J. Jonilowicz
    Camera Operator: F. Csaznik
    Camera Operator: Rolf M. Kneller
    Biography
    Reszö Kasztner (Rudolf Kastner; 1906-1957), journalist, lawyer, and Zionist leader, first in his hometown of Cluj, Romania, then after the annexation of Transylvania by Hungary in 1940, in Budapest. In 1943 he became the vice chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest of the Zionist movement. In 1943 the committee was instrumental - through the work of Joel Brand - in smuggling refugees from Poland and Slovakia into Hungary. After the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, the committee made contact with the SS group in charge of the future extermination program under Adolf Eichmann. Kasztner believed that in Hungary, the only avenue for rescue was negotiation with the Germans. Sums of money were paid to the SS, and Joel Brand was sent to Istanbul in May to negotiate the release of large numbers of Jews in return for trucks and other materials ("Blood for Goods"). When Brand was detained by the British and could not return as promised, his wife Hansi, and Kasztner took over direct negotiations with Eichmann. [Extract from Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, v.2]
    Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English German Hebrew
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    00:00:24:00 to 01:04:28:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2071 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2071 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2071 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2071 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2071 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2071 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2071 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2071 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation recorded the proceedings of the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. The original recording was made on two-inch format videotape. One set of videotapes contained selected portions of the trial for distribution to television stations. The "selected portions" version remained in Israel and was later turned over to the Israel State Archives. Capital Cities Broadcasting retained the set of videotapes containing the complete trial proceedings at offices in New York City until 1965, when they gave the videotapes to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The Anti-Defamation League, in turn, gave the complete set to the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972. With a grant from the Revson Foundation, Hebrew University transferred the two-inch videotapes to U-Matic format. During the transfer process, Hebrew University created three duplicate sets. One set was given to the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, one to the Israel State Archives, and one set to the Jewish Museum in New York City. In 1995, the Israel State Archives transferred the trial footage to digital videoformat with a grant from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Three subsequent digital videotape copies resulted from this transfer of footage. The Israel State Archives retained one digital copy and a second set was deposited at the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the third set of digital videotapes in May 1999.
    Note
    See official transcripts, published in "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann", Vol. I-V, State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem, 1994. Also available online at the Nizkor Project.
    Copied From
    2" Quad
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2275
    Source Archive Number: VTEI 111
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:46:45
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