The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, which ran from April to August 1961, produced one of the most extensive courtroom records in Holocaust history. More than a hundred survivors gave testimony, much of it heard in public for the first time. The full transcript runs to thousands of pages and is one of the foundational primary sources for Holocaust history.
The Nizkor Project hosts the most complete English-language version of the trial transcripts, including the indictment, the daily session records, the verdict, and the appeal proceedings. The Israeli government has also made the original Hebrew transcripts available, along with photographs and film of the proceedings, through Yad Vashem and the Israel State Archives.
The Eichmann trial is significant beyond its specific legal verdict. It was the first trial in which survivor testimony was the central form of evidence, rather than captured German documents. It changed public understanding of the Holocaust both in Israel and internationally, and it produced the framework within which most subsequent public discussion of the Holocaust has taken place. For anyone studying that change, the trial transcripts are the primary record.
Nizkor Eichmann archive: www.nizkor.com
Israel State Archives: www.archives.gov.il