Jake Paltrow’s soul-searching “June Zero” starts in 1961 Israel with reports that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death. Eichmann was found guilty of crimes against the Jewish ...

In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn’t want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they ...

Eichmann was in charge of organizing the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, and was hanged in Israel on June 1, 1962, after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

In 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind.” The space ...

correctionA previous version of this article misstated the film's name. It is "June Zero." The article has been corrected. Jake Paltrow’s soul-searching “June Zero” starts in 1961 Israel with reports ...