At midnight on May 31st 1962, Shalom Nagar looked his prisoner in the eye. They stood perhaps a metre apart, in a room on the second floor of Ramla prison in central Israel. Adolf Eichmann was tied at ...

He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital punishment. By Sam Roberts Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli ...

TEL AVIV, November 28. /TASS/. Shalom Nagar, who executed notorious Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in 1962, died in Israel at the age of 86, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Israeli authorities have ...

"This is an unusual defendant..." Madman Films in Australia has posted a new trailer for the documentary film titled The Eichmann Trial, a look back at this famous trial in 1961. This doc already ...

Israel's national archives announced Monday they were granting public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers ...

A wooden chair inside a bullet-proof booth where Adolph Eichmann sat in during his trial in 1961 is part of the display in the "Operation Finale" exhibit at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s state archive says Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was allowed to see his wife shortly before his 1962 execution. The archive produced records on Monday of Vera Eichmann’s ...

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

Shalom Nagar, who was a reluctant 23-year-old Israeli prison guard when he was chosen to hang Adolf Eichmann -- the fugitive Nazi war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide, in the ...