Entrance ticket to Eichmann's trial. Belonging to Avraham Selinger, Head of Bureau 06 who investigated Eichmann and assembled evidences for the trial (with Selinger's photo). March, 1961.
Adolf Eichmann, a high rank officer in the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, was captured by the "Mossad" in 1960 and brought to trial in Israel. A special unit of the Israeli police was in charge of his investigation – Bureau 06 – under the command of Avraham Selinger. The investigation lasted 9 months and when it was finalized Eichmann was indicted of 15 charges including crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, and more. The trial which lasted several months, was held in "Beit HaAm" (present day Gerard Bachar Center), in Jerusalem. The prosecutor was Gideon Hausner, Israeli Attorney General. Eichmann's defense lawyer was Dr. Robert Servatius, who defended some of the Nazi criminals in the Nuremberg trials. The court listened to more than one hundred witnesses and examined thousands of documents. In spite of the fact that Eichmann claimed that he only obeyed orders, it was proven that he held a central role in the Nazi extermination operation. Eichmann was sentenced to death, the first and only death penalty in the history of Israel. 7X9.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Laminated.