The Israel State Archives released a searchable digital collection on Monday of 380,000 pages from the 1961 Jerusalem trial of SS officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
The Israeli government is making the documents available to the public to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The pages uploaded to an advanced search engine include testimony, lists, photographs, court files, and correspondence between the State Attorney’s Office and then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
Israel Police compiled the “Bureau 06" materials for the 1961 trial. Bureau 06 was a team formed to investigate and prepare the State of Israel’s charges against Eichmann.
Among the materials is the testimony of Holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur (Ka-Tsetnik), who collapsed during the trial and could not testify in court but recounted the horrors of Auschwitz and his chilling encounter with Eichmann to the police.
לציון יום השואה הבינ"ל ארכיון המדינה במשרד רה"מ מאפשר לציבור לאתר מידע משפחתי באוסף חומרי משפט אייכמן
— ראש ממשלת ישראל (@IsraeliPM_heb) January 27, 2025
יחיאל די-נור (ק. צטניק) סיפר על פגישתו עם אייכמן: "מבט זה לא אוכל לשכוח לעולם, היה נדמה לי שהאיש מסתכל עליי דרך החורים של עיני גולגולת המוות שעל כובעו"https://t.co/OERXutWni7 pic.twitter.com/H7CsERgDqK
De-Nur described his horrific transport to the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the deadly selections, and his haunting encounter with Eichmann, whose gaze he described as “hypnotic and terrifying,” comparing it to looking through “the eyeholes of the death’s-head [symbol] on his cap.”
The collection is accessible online via the Israel State Archive website, along with a video link to De-Nur’s courtroom collapse.
