Lot 123
"Kastner Trial", Petition for a Retrial, 1962
"The petition for a retrial of the Kastner Trial", Shmuel Tamir. [Tel-Aviv], 1962. Hebrew.
A volume comprising photocopies of documents – petition of Shmuel Tamir, Malchiel Gruenwald's attorney, to the Attorney General of Israel, Gideon Hausner, with a request for a retrial of Gruenwald's case, and accompanying documents. The reason for the petition was new discoveries revealed during the Eichmann Trial and could, according to Tamir, lead to overturning the Supreme Court's verdict (given after the verdict of the District Court was appealed), according to which, Gruenwald did not manage to prove most of his claims against Rudolf Kastner.
This petition, which was submitted approx. five years after Kastner's murder, was rejected.
Many handwritten comments and markings (in pencil).
[2], 24, 10, [12], 6, [16] leaves, 32 cm. Good condition. Stains. Strips of tape on margins of some leaves.
