--- title: Adolf Eichmann: Nazi's Trial Recreated in New York description: New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage will recreate the iconic trial of a Nazi war criminal in a new exhibit opening Sunday canonical: https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/ author: Lavinia Liang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-14T21:49:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:34:21.946Z article:section: History og:title: New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal og:description: Adolf Eichmann was one of the chief architects of the Holocaust og:url: https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee2b937a8ad6ee7/6988d5cb97cdff696c6b19a4/nazi-trial-museum-jewish-heritage.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Adolf Eichmann og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal twitter:description: Adolf Eichmann was one of the chief architects of the Holocaust twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee2b937a8ad6ee7/6988d5cb97cdff696c6b19a4/nazi-trial-museum-jewish-heritage.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal by [Lavinia Liang](https://time.com/author/lavinia-liang/) ## Lavinia Liang Jul 14, 2017 9:49 PM UTC  The bulletproof glass booth in which Adolf Eichmann testified during his trial in Jerusalem District Court is displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, Friday, July 14, 2017. The bulletproof glass booth in which Adolf Eichmann testified during his trial in Jerusalem District Court is displayed in the "Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, Friday, July 14, 2017.Richard Drew—AP by [Lavinia Liang](https://time.com/author/lavinia-liang/) ## Lavinia Liang Jul 14, 2017 9:49 PM UTC New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage will recreate the iconic trial of a Nazi war criminal in a new exhibit opening Sunday. [Adolf Eichmann](http://time.com/3881576/adolf-eichmann-in-israel-photos-nazi-war-criminal/) was the chief logistician of the Holocaust. His work included planning the routes of the deportation trains, loaded with prisoners, to concentration camps. “Operation Finale” recreates the physical settings of Eichmann’s trial. Original video footage of Eichmann on the stand sits behind his actual court booth. Another video screen shows testimonies and stricken witnesses. Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Jerusalem was held in a theater converted to a courtroom, a setting similar to the museum space. Eichmann was [hanged in 1962](http://time.com/4196553/adolf-eichmann-nazi-criminal-letter/) for his war crimes. “Operation Finale” takes its name from the code name given to the Eichmann mission in Argentina by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Mossad captured Eichmann in 1960, a decade after he fled to Argentina. **Read More:** [See TIME’s coverage of “Operation Finale” in Tel Aviv in 2012](http://world.time.com/2012/02/09/the-art-of-nazi-hunting-how-israels-mossad-found-adolf-eichmann/) The exhibit was created by a former agent in Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and premiered at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv and will remain in New York until December. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/"},"headline":"New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal","datePublished":"2017-07-14T21:49:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:34:21.946Z","description":"New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage will recreate the iconic trial of a Nazi war criminal in a new exhibit opening Sunday","url":"https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/","keywords":["Holocaust","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee2b937a8ad6ee7/6988d5cb97cdff696c6b19a4/nazi-trial-museum-jewish-heritage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lavinia Liang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lavinia-liang/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ee2b937a8ad6ee7/6988d5cb97cdff696c6b19a4/nazi-trial-museum-jewish-heritage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Adolf Eichmann","caption":"Adolf Eichmann","creditText":"Richard Drew—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/holocaust/","name":"Holocaust"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4859522/adolf-eichmann-operation-finale-museum-jewish-heritage/","name":"New York Jewish Museum Will Recreate Trial of Nazi War Criminal"}}]}] ```