Prison guard was selected against his wishes to carry out death sentence and traumatized by it, remaining anonymous for three ...

Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison guard who carried out the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of ...

Eichmann was a key figure in managing and enabling the logistics and transportation of deporting Jews to the extermination ...

Former Prison Services officer, Shalom Nagar, who hanged Nazi Adolf Eichmann, has died at the age of 91. Nagar served as Eichmann's prison guard and was later chosen to execute him. He said that ...

Shalom Nagar, the man who hanged Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1962, has died in his late 80s. Nagar, a ...

Shalom Nagar, who said he kept the secret for 30 years and had nightmares after the execution, was 86. Eichmann was one of the key figures responsible for the Holocaust’s “Final Solution.” ...

Nagar, born in Yemen, moved to Israel as an orphan in 1948, when he was only 12 years old. After serving in the Army, he ...

Shalom Nagar oversaw the hanging of the war criminal after he was convicted over his role in organising the Holocaust, in ...

The hanging was the only judicial execution ever held in the State of Israel, which does not have capital punishment except for murder committed by the Nazis and their aides, and for treason. This ...