The Eichmann Trial

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina after a fifteen-year manhunt and whisked to Jerusalem to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Told entirely through archival footage of the trial itself and contemporaneous news coverage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials in history and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.

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“As I stand here before you, judges of Israel, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, I do not stand alone. With me, in this place and at this hour, stand six million accusers.” — Gideon Hausner, prosecutor of the Eichmann trial

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ February 21-24, watch the film The Eichmann Trial on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Tamar Hausner-Raveh, lawyer and daughter of Gideon Hausner, the trial’s chief prosecutor, remembered when she was 14 years old, the day her father was appointed to the case and Eichmann entered her life. “My father shared with us his doubts about whether he could represent the victims without being a survivor himself,” she said. But he found the inner strength to do so, as reflected in his opening remarks of the trial: “As I stand here before you, judges of Israel, to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, I do not stand alone. With me, in this place and at this hour, stand six million accusers.”

Elliot Levitt is a freelance documentary film director and editor who has been editing documentaries of all kinds for several years.  His work has been awarded with an Emmy, aired on television and screened at festivals worldwide. The Eichmann Trial marks his directorial debut. He holds a B.A. in film from the University of Michigan, and his previous documentary film projects include The Passengers, The Last Signal and Elvis, Rocky and Me. The Eichmann Trial premiered in 2023 at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, and has been shown worldwide to great acclaim. It combines footage of the trial with contemporaneous news coverage to document how the trial was received by the public as it unfolded.

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, who will moderate, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

Dr. Mordecai Paldiel headed the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem from 1982-2007. His books include The Path of the Righteous, Sheltering the Jews, Saving the Jews, Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, and Saving One’s Own. He serves on the B’nai B’rith Commission to honor Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. He is also on the Board of the Sousa Mendes Foundation and, thanks to his efforts, there is now a square named for Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Jerusalem. He provided the list of 60 diplomat-rescuers honored by the US Congress in 2024 in the Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust Congressional Gold Medal Act.

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Tickets are by donation of any amount ($18 suggested, tax-deductible).