SESSION XX
ABOUT THIS SESSION
SESSION 20 of the trial of Adolf Eichmann took place in the morning of Friday, April 28, 1961. The session begins with the judges’ decision, based on arguments in SESSION 19, about the admissibility of affidavits from witnesses currently living abroad. After the submission of documents into evidence by assistant prosecutor Ya’akov Bar-Or, Dr. Ya’akov Hugo Kratky, a doctor from Moravia Ostrava, testifies about the forced deportation of Jews from that region to Nisko. Additional documents are then submitted into evidence, after which witness Ada Lichtman testifies about the deportation of Jews from Wieliczka, Poland.
About an hour of footage remains from SESSION 20.
NOTABLE MOMENTS
00:00 - Court not in session
01:31 - Session 20 begins
01:41 - Decision on Taking Evidence Abroad
18:35 - Disagreement between Hausner and Presiding Judge over lengthy submission of evidence
22:19 - Submission of documents into evidence
23:35 - Judge scolds Hausner for reading a lengthy excerpt
23:55 - Hausner quotes Hoettl’s recollection that Eichmann cited six million Jewish deaths during the Holocaust
29:01 - Testimony of Dr. Ya’akov Hugo Kratky
35:46 - Testimony of Ada Lichtman
56:41 - Lichtman recalls Nazi atrocities she witnessed in Dubinka
TRANSCRIPT
Material highlighted green survives in video form.
Material highlighted pink has been lost.