Warsaw Ghetto uprising at the Eichmann trial

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) was the ultimate symbol of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust. This article examines its presence in the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (1961) and focuses on three testimonies of survivors of the uprising: Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman, senior members of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), and Dr. David Wdowinski, political leader of the Jewish Military Organization (ZZW). Examination of the circumstances of their summons to testify, the dynamics of the testimonies, and the responses to them shows that although this trial was a national consensus event, it was an arena for political clashes; for the revisionists, it was the first step in shifting the story of ZZW heroism from the margins to the centre of Israeli public discourse.