Eichmann Trial -- Session 63 -- Submission of documents; witness Y. Gutman

Session 63. Attorney General introduces two more documents - speech by Himmler to senior SS, at Posen, Oct 1943 [T/1288]. Himmler states that all the Jews will be exterminated - that is the goal. Admits - Jewish belongings were turned over to the Reich. Himmler's chapter on discipline is read. 00:11:51 Yisrael Gutman's testimony (all of Gutman's testimony is also on Tape 2074). Active in Warsaw ghetto uprising. Arrested, describes destroyed Warsaw. Went to Majdanek. Describes experiences there. Selections. Role calls. Survived because he was given medicine - rarity, sick Jews normally shot. Met Jewish historian Dr. Yitzhak Schiper in camp. Latrines. Whips. Kapos. Selections to change camps - failed three times, then went to Auschwitz A. Describes underground movement, Sonderkommando revolt. Describes trying to organize getting explosives, smuggling them out of factory. Taken to Mauthausen - death march. Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.