Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of a Historic Trial

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immediately following Passover week (Hol HaMo'ed), traditionally the week devoted to visiting Mount of Zion and Jerusalem. The first respondent on the program is a 17 years old Yeshiva student, whose answer to whether he had heard about the Holocaust is “yes, what we had with the Germans, with Hitler and <strong>Eichmann</strong> and all those who exterminated 6 million people.” Asked whether he finds interest in what happened there he answers “absolutely, many of our people were killed there.” Next is a 16 year old girl who had emigrated from Turkey. While she heard about <strong>Eichmann</strong>, her reply to the interviewer’s question, "does it interest you at all?" is "don't know, don't care." After the interviewer insists "not at all?" she answers "of course not… what do I care? …it interests the Polls, not me." The presenter then continues to describe the scene up on the mountain where “a Yemenite stands; he’s already 12 years in the country.” “Do you know anything about <strong>Eichmann</strong>?” asks the interviewer, “I heard about him a couple of months ago,” he replies. To the question “Why is he facing trial?” he answers “I don’t exactly know … maybe for killing Jews.” To the question “Are you at all interested in this?” he answers “it interests everybody else, not me." A 21 year old young woman—a music teacher, studying law— is then asked when she first heard about the Holocaust—“when I reached 20
the age when you hear about holocausts, in elementary school,” she answers. She admits that her “reaction to the Holocaust was like to any other disaster, only this one happened to be on a much larger scale,” immediately adding that “since I wasn’t involved and fortunately neither was my family, it was from a distance. On the other hand, smaller things, like the pogroms in Russia were more relevant to me since my parents are from Russia.” Then a policeman, standing on guard near Beit Ha’am, the hall assigned to hold the trial: he first heard about <strong>Eichmann</strong> only upon his capture a year prior; evidently from a Sephardic origin, he finds great interest in the trial primarily “as a Jew,” affirming that “I think this trial will make history.” Moving to a series of interviews on the streets of Tel Aviv, a driver who states he had lost his family in the Holocaust speaks about the importance of the trial in educating the young generation and the world at large about what had taken place there, “it will awaken history for them, making them see what a big people we once were.” A 13 year old girl, on vacation from school, replies to the same question “<strong>Eichmann</strong>? <strong>Eichmann</strong> is tormentor of Jews. He is the man who killed 6 million Jews.” To the interview’s questions she answers she’s never heard about the Holocaust at school and neither at home; what she knows comes from reading 21
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