The government of Israel announced on Monday the online publication of 380,000 pages of the trial against the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmannon the occasion of International Holocaust Day When 80 years have passed since the release of the refugee camp from Auschwitz.
In a statement, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office indicated that the documents are accessible on the website of LOs files in the state of Israelincluding “Chilling testimonies, letters, lists and photographs ” and the correspondence between the Prosecutor’s Office and the then Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.
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The authorities indicated that the publication of the documents will be Useful for researchers And relatives of those who intervened in this trial in 1961, in which Eichmann was sentenced to death for his participation in the genocide against the Jews.
The publication allows searches through optical character recognition technology (ROC), which allows searches through keywords, names, events and dates, as well as automatic translations.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the key figures responsible for the Nazi holocaust and the architect of the so -called Final solution. In addition, he was in charge of transport management to deport Jews to the extermination fields.
In 1960 he was captured in Argentina For the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Mosadwhere he lived under the name of Ricardo Clementeand sent in a secret operation to Israel.
In the eight -month trial in 1961 in Jerusalem, Eichmann He was sentenced to the guilty capital punishment of 15 positions, including crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Its execution for the gallows took place at night between May 31 and June 1 of the following year, after the president of Israel rejected to pardon him.
January 27, International Day in Memory of the Holocaust victimscommemorates the Liberation in 1945 of the Nazi concentration and extermination field of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
