Yosef Kleinman


Yosef Zalman Kleinman was a Slovak Holocaust survivor, who testified against Adolf Eichmann at his trial.

Early life

Yosef Zalman Kleinman was born in Czechoslovakia in January 1930.
Kleinman was deported by the occupying Nazi administration to Auschwitz concentration camp, at the age of 14. His father, mother, and sister were killed at the camp.

Eichmann trial

Kleinman was one of 110 witnesses at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961.

Death

Yosef Kleinman died in Jerusalem on 4 May 2021 at the age of 91.

Book

  • ''חלצת נפשי ממות''