Overview
- Description
- Contains evidentiary material and the audio recordings of the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann conducted by Captain Avner Less of the Israeli Police. The interrogation took place during a period of nine months in a fortified police station in Yagur, near Haifa in northern Israel. The audio recordings of the interrogation cover the period from May 29, 1960 to February 02, 1961. This collection is a sub-collection of the larger RG 79 Israeli Police, 1948-1985.
- Date
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inclusive:
1920-1961
- Collection Creator
- Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
- Reference
- Lang, Jochen von, and Claus Sibyll, editors. Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.
Cesarani, David. Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a “Desk Murderer.” Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006.
Braham, Randolph L. The Eichmann Case: A Source Book. New York: World Federation of Hungarian Jews, 1969.
USHMM online bibliography "The Eichmann Trial" on the Web at http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=Eichmann
Physical Details
- Extent
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127,776 digital images : PNG ; 53.1 GB.
114 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
12 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in the following order: Part 1: RG 79 Israeli Police, (Adolf Eichmann Police Investigation) Evidentiary Material, contains evidentiary material (6 DVDs produced in July 2009 ); Part 2: RG 79 Israeli Police, (Adolf Eichmann Police Investigation) Audio Recording, contains digitized audio files (6 DVDs produced in April 2008).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication of documents and duplication of microfilm reels or digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Israel State Archives, which may require payment of a license fee for commercial use.
- Copyright Holder
- Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Israel State Archives, Jerusalem, Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Israel State Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:59:29
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42410
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