Object numberM2010/053
DescriptionScrapbook containing newspaper clippings of articles written by Zell Rabin (brother of donor Milly Goldman) for the Daily Mirror New York bureau from around July 1960 to December 1961. Over 20 articles and editorials pasted in are on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann was responsible for implementing the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'.
German SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel) Eichmann was charged by Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he fled to Argentina and lived there under a false identity until 1960. He was captured by Israeli secret service in Argentina and tried in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and executed by hanging in 1962.
Zell (Zalman) Rabin, originally Rabinovitch, was born in 1932 in Telsai, Lithuania. He came to Australia in 1939. While studying commerce at Brisbane University he became editor of the university paper. He started writing for the Courier Mail doing sports reporting, eventually getting a job as a journalist at The Sun. He was transferred to New York to take charge of the NY office. After meeting Rupert Murdoch, he took over Sydney’s Daily Mirror, the youngest editor of a major daily newspaper at the time. He was assigned to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in April 1961 – his article ‘The Trial of the century’, Sydney Thursday 6 April 1961 made front page news. The trial, which brought more than 500 correspondents from 35 countries to Jerusalem, took three months.
The scrapbook also contains Rabin's clippings from the Daily Mirror, written from the New York Bureau, articles covering the Cuban crisis, his editorial on Marilyn Monroe entering a ‘mental home’, segregation in the State of Alabama, the US Presidential race (Nixon/Kennedy), man in space and birth control law in the US. Zell Rabin died in 1966.
German SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel) Eichmann was charged by Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he fled to Argentina and lived there under a false identity until 1960. He was captured by Israeli secret service in Argentina and tried in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and executed by hanging in 1962.
Zell (Zalman) Rabin, originally Rabinovitch, was born in 1932 in Telsai, Lithuania. He came to Australia in 1939. While studying commerce at Brisbane University he became editor of the university paper. He started writing for the Courier Mail doing sports reporting, eventually getting a job as a journalist at The Sun. He was transferred to New York to take charge of the NY office. After meeting Rupert Murdoch, he took over Sydney’s Daily Mirror, the youngest editor of a major daily newspaper at the time. He was assigned to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in April 1961 – his article ‘The Trial of the century’, Sydney Thursday 6 April 1961 made front page news. The trial, which brought more than 500 correspondents from 35 countries to Jerusalem, took three months.
The scrapbook also contains Rabin's clippings from the Daily Mirror, written from the New York Bureau, articles covering the Cuban crisis, his editorial on Marilyn Monroe entering a ‘mental home’, segregation in the State of Alabama, the US Presidential race (Nixon/Kennedy), man in space and birth control law in the US. Zell Rabin died in 1966.
Production date 1960 - 1961
Object namescrapbooks
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- height: 435.00 mm
width: 360.00 mm
depth: 75.00 mm
Language
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Milly Goldman