Dusting Off an Eichmann Documentary
A screenshot from ?Memories of the Eichmann Trial,? in which photographer Henryk Ross demonstrates how he secretly snapped photos in the Lodz Ghetto, with his wife Stefania at left.
Crossposted from Haaretz
A screenshot from ?Memories of the Eichmann Trial,? in which photographer Henryk Ross demonstrates how he secretly snapped photos in the Lodz Ghetto, with his wife Stefania at left.
In 1979, Channel One broadcast “Memories of the Eichmann Trial,” a documentary directed for the Israeli television station by David Perlov. The movie, shot on 16mm film, was aired only once and for the 32 years since has remained unseen in the channel’s archives. The director, who passed away in 2003, did not own a copy of the documentary himself, but rather a yellowed video cassette prepared for him by the archive, which was missing the first three minutes and the closing credits.
With the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann trial this year, Perlov’s family, in cooperation with Yad Vashem, decided to save the film from oblivion. Last month, with the help of Channel One archive director Billy Segal, Perlov’s daughter Yael and Yad Vashem Visual Center director Liat Benhabib located the boxes containing the original copy of the documentary.
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