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Eichmann in My Living Room

Summarizing Anne-Marie Deutsch in Moment · Published Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Anne-Marie Deutsch reflects on her childhood experience of watching the televised trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, which inadvertently introduced her to the horrors of the Holocaust, a topic that her survivor parents seldom addressed directly with her. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish History  Holocaust  Adolf Eichmann  Holocaust Education  Survivor Stories  Childhood Trauma  Post War America  Television  Historical Memory  Nazi Trials 

Places mentioned

Hillside, New Jersey, United States
"The TV set was the centerpiece of our apartments small living room in Hillside, NJ, a comfortable suburb adjacent to Newark, which had been our familys first stop in the United States."
Israel
"In fact, Israel did not have television in 1961; the first TV sets did not arrive until five years later, and Israelis followed the trial on the radio."
Newark, New Jersey, United States
"The TV set was the centerpiece of our apartments small living room in Hillside, NJ, a comfortable suburb adjacent to Newark, which had been our familys first stop in the United States."
Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary
"They told me that my mother Julia, her brother Laszlo and her parentsMaria and Joszeflived relatively peaceful middle-class lives in Debrecen, Hungary, until 1944, just as the war was approaching its end."
Budapest, Hungary
"My father Ivan lived with his family in the center of cosmopolitan Budapest."
Sweden
"They soon left Hungary for Sweden, where I was born, and a few years later, in 1953, we emigrated to America."
Germany
"but his older sister Rozsa died of disease, along with her husband Miklos, in the German camp Bergen-Belsen."
Poland
"In March of that year, the Jews of Debrecen were rounded up in the local brick factory, then taken by train to Auschwitz, the infamous German-run concentration camp and killing center in occupied Poland."
Argentina
"I did not know he had been a top aide to Adolf Hitler in charge of organizing wartime transportation to take Jews to death camps, nor how he had escaped after the war and was eventually caught in Argentina fifteen years later, to be brought to Israel and tried for war crimes."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"Anne-Marie Deutsch is a clinical psychologist living in Washington, DC."

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