January 25th Rare Autograph & Book Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2024
This lot contains a variety of items regarding the trial of Adolf Eichmann from a famous Warsaw ghetto survivor Moshe Galblum (author of the book " Geza Karut The Exterminated Race" Tel Aviv 1947. Including extremely rare admittance tickets to the trial.
Included are letters from Attorney -General and chief prosecutor Gideon Hausner where to his close confidant Galblum.
Letter 1: Dear Mr. Gelblum, I will have to leave unfortunately at 7:40. How about we hold the delegation meeting on Wednesday at 5 instead, On Tuesday? If you can, could you inform Rabbi Frenkel, Dr. Darin, and Zandman (if he has already returned). I will let others know. Thanks, (Signed) G. Housner.
Letter 2: (A) The Liberal Conference is in the evening. (B) I did not hear about the delegation meeting at the Foreign Ministry. (C) Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate in the Warsaw's meeting in the coming days because I leave this week.
The 2 extremely rare Admission Tickets for trial where to admit the famous Warsaw ghetto survivor Moshe Galblum( author of the book " Geza Karut The exterminated race" Tel Aviv 1947)
3 set volume which is rare and considered one of the most important study books about this trial and the Holocaust period published in 1961 shortly after Eichmann was sentenced to death.
In 1960, the major Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by Israeli agents and brought to Israel to stand trial. His trial, which opened on 11 April 1961, was televised and broadcast internationally, intended to educate about the crimes committed against Jews, which had been secondary to the Nuremberg trials. Prosecutor and Attorney General Gideon Hausner also tried to challenge the portrayal of Jewish functionaries that had emerged in the earlier trials, showing them at worst as victims forced to carry out Nazi decrees while minimizing the "gray zone" of morally questionable behavior. Hausner later wrote that available archival documents "would have sufficed to get Eichmann sentenced ten times over"; nevertheless, he summoned more than 100 witnesses, most of whom had never met the defendant, for didactic purposes. Defense attorney Robert Servatius refused the offers of twelve survivors who agreed to testify for the defense, exposing what they considered immoral behavior by other Jews. Political philosopher Hannah Arendt reported on the trial in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The book had an enormous impact on popular culture, but its ideas have become increasingly controversial.
Eichmann was charged with fifteen counts of violating the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. His trial began on 11 April 1961 and was presided over by three judges: Moshe Landau, Benjamin Halevy, and Yitzhak Raveh. Convicted on all fifteen counts, Eichmann was sentenced to death. He appealed to the Supreme Court, which confirmed the convictions and the sentence. President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi rejected Eichmann's request to commute the sentence. In Israel's only judicial execution to date, Eichmann was hanged on 1 June 1962 at Ramla Prison.
With One of a Kind Collectibles LOA
Eichmann Trial - Letters from Attorney General and Chief Prosecutor, Admission Tickets, 3 Volumes of Trial Set
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