Eichmann’s prosecutor Gabriel Bach dies, aged 94
Bach compiled evidence for the 1961 trial that led to the architect of the Holocaust being hanged in June 1962.
One of the men who prosecuted Nazi Adolf Eichmann has died aged 94.
Gabriel Bach was a state’s attorney who compiled evidence for the 1961 trial that led to Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, being found guilty and hanged in June 1962. He went on to serve on Israel’s Supreme Court.
Eichmann, who arranged the the identification and transportation of Jews from across Nazi-occupied Europe to death camps, was captured in Argentina by Mossad in 1960 and taken to Israel for the trial.
Reflecting on his role in the trial, Bach said in 2017: “If any person deserved death, it was him (Eichmann).”
Bach was buried at Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.
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