Eichmann's fingerprints handed over to Yad Vashem

The fingerprints of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann have been handed over by Israeli police to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Israeli police fingerprinted Eichmann in 1960 after he was captured in Argentina and brought to Israel, where he was tried for his part in implementing the “final solution” in which six million Jews were killed. Eichmann was executed in 1962 – the only person ever to be sentenced to death in Israel. The head of the police forensics department, Azi Zadok, told the "Jerusalem Post" that the decision to move Eichmann’s prints at this time coincided with the recent opening of a new museum at Yad Vashem and the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. “For the past 40 years we held the document in our lab,” Zadok said. “We felt that now was the right time to present it to Yad Vashem.”