Jake Paltrow’s soul-searching “June Zero” starts in 1961 Israel with reports that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death. Eichmann was found guilty of crimes against the Jewish ...

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The story of the 1961 trial and 1962 execution of Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been told extensively, from Hannah Arendt’s contemporaneous book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” to ...

Jake Paltrow’s film braids three fictional stories around the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official and war criminal. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

After Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann, they had a problem: his body. Not wanting to harbor the mass murderer’s remains, the government had an oven factory manufacture a one-time use furnace to cremate ...

In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former ...

However many books and movies take it as their subject, a historical travesty on the incomprehensible scale of the Holocaust must always contain within it an uncountable number of untold stories.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Isabel Kershner, a New York Times correspondent in Jerusalem, has been reporting on Israeli and Palestinian politics since 1990. She is the author of “Barrier: The Seam of the ...

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In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice. By Gary J. Bass The Israeli ...

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In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended the trial. In Eichmann, she saw a passive, mindless bureaucrat. The banality of evil. A line ...