The Execution of Adolf Eichmann

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed just after midnight on June 1st 1962 in a prison in central Israel. Holocaust survivor Michael Goldmann-Gilead witnessed his execution and was one of two people tasked afterwards with scattering Eichmann's ashes at sea. He had been part of the police investigation collecting evidence against Eichmann before his trial, and had lost his parents and sister in the Holocaust. He has been telling Louise Hidalgo his story.

Picture: Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann preparing his defence in his cell at the Teggart Fortress ahead of his trial in Jerusalem in April 1961 for crimes against humanity (Credit: Getty Images)

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0:29.2	Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:35.0	I'm Louis Adalgo and today I'm taking you back to June 1962 and the execution in Israel
0:41.0	of the man regarded as one of the architects of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann.
0:45.0	Eichmann's body was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.
0:48.0	One of the two people tasked with that job was Michael Goldman Gilead, whose parents and sister were killed during the
0:54.7	Holocaust and who himself had survived Auschwitz.
0:58.1	He's been telling me about being part of the police investigation ahead of Eichmann's trial, about meeting him and about watching him die.
1:05.0	In Jerusalem, the trial of Adolf Eichmann begins, reviving memories of the Nazi horrors of the Second World War.
1:15.0	Entering the bulletproof prisoners box is the man charged with the annihilation of millions of Jews in Nazi death camps.
1:22.0	Kishishya Mhati shet of Suuatu,
1:25.0	only kimata it be shock.
1:27.0	When I heard the Dyckman had been caught, I was in shock.
1:30.0	That was in 1960, and of course by then you knew who he was.
1:35.0	I only knew who Eichmann with kufatashua.
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