A huge collection of hundreds of documents from the estate of Nazi hunter Tuvia Friedman - among them documents dealing with the capture of Adolf Eichmann and his trial in Israel. 50s to 90s.
Among them we will note: Letters written by Friedman in 1959 to the Chief Prosecutor of the Ludwigsburg area in Germany, Dr. Schul, regarding evidence proving the crimes of Adolf Eichmann - In one of the letters dated August 13, 1959, Friedman writes: "During my 15 years of work, I have been able to locate and prosecute more than 150 war criminals who were active in killing Jews, but the main goal of my work is to bring Adolf Eichmann to justice." and asks him for help in locating Eichmann. There are several letters that Friedman sent to him on this subject (all signed by Friedman). In the letters, Friedman also details about dieter wisliceny's role in the partnership with Eichmann in the extermination program, and mentions in his letter the names of a number of important people who are willing to pay a large sum to those who will capture Eichmann. These letters were sent a few months before Eichmann's capture and prosecution in Israel, and it is clear from the lines that Friedman already knew that Eichmann's capture was imminent due to many findings he already had about him. There are also 11 pages in stencil print under the heading "The Eichmann Trial and I" in which Friedman summarizes his feelings during the various occurrences in the Eichmann trial, and interesting details about Eichmann himself and his prosecution.
As well as appear also documents from November 1959 that Friedman sent to Dr. Schul in Germany deal with an attempt to capture and extradite Dr. Mengele. Friedman tells of testimonies he received from women in Haifa about Mengele's actions in Auschwitz, And asks him that the German government demand the extradition of Mengele who at the time was known to be in Argentina. A letter appears regarding 6 Nazi murderers who participated in the murder of one million Polish Jews who were acquitted for lack of evidence in a court in Hamburg. On the failure of their conviction, Friedman writes: "My work for 30 years goes down the drain."
As well as documents dealing with the atrocities of the Nazis in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as about the Gestapo operations in Kaunas in Riga and Vilnius, regarding the crimes of SS man Werner Sandowski who murdered Jews in Radom and Stanislav, as well as attempts to locate Nazi criminals Krieger, Brandt, Asman, shot and others. In the months in which the letters were written, Friedman writes that in his opinion about 1000 Nazi war criminals at the rank of officers who have still roamed free, and that there is a chance to arrest them and bring them to justice. There are printed photographs of Nazi criminals, photographs of Friedman alongside Shimon Wiesenthal.
and many other documents dealing with Friedman's extensive activities over the years that have not been thoroughly examined by us.
Tuvia Friedman [1922-2011] A survivor of the Shkolna camp who worked all his life to capture the Nazi war criminals, founder and director of the Documentation Institute. His part in capturing Eichmann was significant. On his own initiative, he began publishing ads in foreign newspapers offering a $ 10,000 cash prize to informants about Eichmann's whereabouts. As a result, Friedman was inundated with a flood of letters from many countries. One of the letters, which arrived in October 1959 and appeared credible, claimed that Eichmann lived near Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the first hint as to Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina. On May 23, Ben-Gurion announced from the Knesset podium that Eichmann had been captured and brought to Israel. Two days later, Friedman handed the Israel Police a file containing 400 pages of material about Eichmann. Friedman worked on collecting this material for nearly 15 years. He also worked to repeal the statute of limitations on German law on Nazi crimes. His struggle was successful in 1979, when it was decided in the Bundestag to repeal the statute of limitations on murder and genocide.
Hundreds of paper items. general condition very good.
