The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)  The Trial
of Adolf Eichmann Session 27 (Part 7 of 10)  Holocaust, Adolf
Eichmann, Eichmann trial, holocaust, Jewish holocaust Presiding
Judge: Was he a Russian?  Witness Kovner: Yes. A Russian with
the rank of general. When I asked "Why?" he replied that his
intelligence officer complained that when Nazis fell into the
hands of our partisans, the Jews, they knew what awaited them
and it was impossible to get any word out of them in an
interrogation. I wanted to reply to him and tell him that when
such men fell into our hands - our men didn't greet them with
cries of "Hurrah," but with each blow our comrades shouted: "For
mein Estherle, for mein Rochele, for mein Moishele" (on account
of my Esther, my Rachel, my Moshe). I wanted to tell him about
my family and about the 60,000 Jews of Vilna and about millions.
Instead of that I told him of my recollection of the baby being
knocked against the wall. I remember that this Soviet officer's
eyes filled with tea