Justice Gabriel Bach to guest lecture - Creighton University - 9/22 and Kutak Rock - 9/23
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 12:28PM Print Article Cindy Workman
Media Relations Coordinator
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
OMAHA, Neb. – The Creighton University School of Law International Law Lecture will mark the 50th anniversary of the trail of infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann with a talk by Justice Gabriel Bach, Israeli Supreme Court (ret.), the prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, at 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 22 in the auditorium of the Mike and Josie Harper Center at 602 N. 20th Street. Reception to follow.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Eichmann, one of the top-ranking Nazis responsible for the Holocaust was captured in 1960 in Buenos Aires by the Israeli Mossad as part of a covert operation. He was then transported to Israel to be prosecuted in Jerusalem as a war criminal. Justice Bach was appointed to the position of a senior prosecutor for the trial that began in the spring of 1961. He was the lead coordinator for the investigation of Eichmann’s crimes, acting as the legal advisor to the police bureau and preparing the case for trial. He served as one of three principal prosecutors during the trial of Eichmann – one of the most significant trials in the annals of criminal justice.