The curtain will rise tomorrow in Community Hall here on one of the final scenes in the drama of former Gestapo colonel Adolf Eichmann–his appeal from his sentence of death.
The Nazi was sentenced last December 15 after being convicted of having had a key role in the Nazi wartime slaughter of 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children. He was transferred in strict secrecy last night from his prison cell near Tel Aviv to the same quarters in which he lived in the Community Hall during his four–month trial last year.
If the five-man court of appeals sustains the verdict and the sentence, Eichmann will have a final recourse–an appeal to President Ben-Zvi for clemency. The hearing is expected to take four or five days. There will be a weekend recess with the proceedings closing March 29 or 30. The tribunal is then expected to retire for a month to ponder a judgment.
The defendant is not expected to testify during the hearing but he will once more occupy the bullet-proof glass prisoner’s dock as his West German attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, tries to save him from the gallows.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
