Eyewitness to Adolf Eichmann Trial to Speak

Fifty years after the televised war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann captured the attention of the world, a free lecture open to the public will explore the trial’s impact from the perspective of an eyewitness. 

The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center of the Richard Stockton College of NJ and the Milton and Bettty Katz Jewish Community Center will present the talk: "Fifty Years Later---The Impact of the Eichmann Trial: A First Hand Account by Dr. Nili Keren."
The free and open to the public lecture will be held at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center, 501 North Jerome Ave., Margate. For NJ educators, 2.0 professional development hours will be available. Questions, 609-652-4699.

Dr. Nili Keren, the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College of NJ for spring 2011 semester, knows about the trial from a perspective unlike most.  Professor Keren, as a teenager, wrote a letter to the trial’s Chief Prosecutor, Gideon Hausner. She was invited to meet with Hausner in Jerusalem and later attended some of the trial. Professor Keren developed a friendship with Gideon Hausner and they remained in contact for many years.
Israel had existed only 13 years as a nation when Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi officer who had fled to South America, was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961. The trial, televised around much of the world, was a significant milestone in the global discussion of the Holocaust.