"6,000,000 Accusers" – English Translation of Gideon Hausner's Opening Speech at the Eichmann Trial – Jerusalem ...

"6,000,000 Accusers" – English Translation of Gideon Hausner's Opening Speech at the Eichmann Trial – Jerusalem, 1961 – Copy Signed by Hausner
6,000,000 Accusers, Israel's Case against Eichmann, opening speech of the Attorney General of the State of Israel Gideon Hausner at the Eichmann Trial. English translation by Shabtai Rosenne. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Post press, 1961. English.
"6,000,000 Accusers", Gideon Hausner's opening speech at the Eichmann trial, translated and edited by Shabtai Rosenne. This copy belonged to Hausner and it bears his signature, in English, on the half-title page: "Gideon Hausner / Jerusalem, March 8, 1965". Pasted to the book's endpapers are newspaper clippings, including a caricature on the subject of the Eichmann trial and an essay titled "Eichmann Hanged"; both were published in the Jerusalem Post newspaper (1961-1962).
Adolf Eichmann, a senior member of the SS and one of the key figures of the "Final Solution" plan intended to exterminate the Jews of Europe, was tried in Israel in 1961. Jurist Gideon Hausner (1915-1990), then Attorney General, was appointed main prosecutor in the trial and became the figure most identified with the Israeli prosecution. The trial, conducted in the presence of hundreds of reporters and broadcast in part on Kol Israel, resonated throughout Israel and worldwide. It presented for the first time the testimonies of hundreds of victims, and is considered a landmark event shaping the memory of the Holocaust.
Hausner's long opening speech was particularly memorable. In it he presented the entire process of the extermination of Europe's Jews, citing endless documents and testimonies, numerical data, names of German officers and officials, destroyed communities and even poems written by victims.
316 pp + [12] photographic plates, 21 cm. Good overall condition. Former library copy (library stamps, paper stickers on front endpapers and binding). Some stains and blemishes. Minor blemishes to binding.