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exhibit
Capturing Eichmann
“Operation Finale” exhibit reveals
history of the secret Mossad mission.
T
he Holocaust Memorial
Center in Farmington
Hills is featuring a
special exhibit, “Operation
Finale: The Capture & Trial of
Adolf Eichmann,” which runs
through mid-June.
The exhibit reveals the
secret history behind the
capture and trial of one of
the world’
s most notori-
ous escaped war criminals.
Eichmann, head of the
Nazis’
homicidal “Jewish
Department,
” who managed
the transport of millions of
people to death camps, van-
ished after World War II.
Photographs, film and
recently declassified spy arti-
facts reveal the history behind
the daring abduction and
globally broadcast trial of a
principal perpetrator of Nazi
Germany’
s Final Solution.
Eichmann
escaped to
Argentina after
World War II
and changed his
name to Ricardo
Klement. He was
located through
the work of a
Holocaust survivor
and Israel’
s national intelli-
gence agency, Mossad.
“Operation Finale” was
the code name of Mossad’
s
effort to capture and abduct
Eichmann. He was smuggled
back to Israel and stood trial
in Jerusalem for crimes against
the Jewish people, where he
was found guilty and execut-
ed in 1962. According to the
William Davidson Archive
of Jewish Detroit History,
JN founding editor Philip
Slomovitz was one of few
American Jewish journalists
to cover Eichmann’
s trial in
person.
The multimedia exhibit
includes 70 photographs, short
films and 60 original artifacts,
including maps, hand-forged
documents and a replica of the
bulletproof glass booth used
during the trial.
“The HMC is
proud to provide
our visitors with
unprecedented
access to artifacts
and documents on
a critical juncture
in history,
” said
HMC CEO Rabbi
Eli Mayerfeld. “The
unwavering commitment to
bring this war criminal to jus-
tice was not only inspiring, it
also created global awareness
of the destruction of European
Jewry during World War II.
”
The exhibit is a coproduc-
tion of Mossad: Israeli Secret
Intelligence Service; Beit
Hatfutsot, the Museum of the
Jewish People, Tel Aviv; and
the Maltz Museum of Jewish
Heritage in Cleveland.
Item from the Holocaust Memorial
Center.
details
The exhibit is open
Sunday-Friday through
mid-June; free with
membership or
museum admission.
COURTESY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER
This exhibit photo shows Adolf
Eichmann on trial in 1961.
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