In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe?s Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became ?the Holocaust?.

This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings together new research by scholars from Europe, Israel and the USA.