Gabriel Bach

Gabriel Bach (Hebrew גבריאל בך; born March 13, 1927 in Halberstadt ) is an Israeli lawyer and was a deputy prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Life

As the son of the Director General of the deer copper and brass works of Victor Bach and his wife Erna he grew from his second month of life in Berlin- Charlottenburg in the Constance Street and attended Theodor Herzl School, which was then headed by Paula Prince.

In October 1938 Bach family emigrated from Nazi German Reich to Amsterdam, where he continued to attend school. He is the only survivor of his Jewish classmates from this school. In 1940, a month before the invasion of Holland by German troops, the family booked a passage to Palestine and lived there in Jerusalem.

He went to the war to London and studied at University College Jura. He obtained the degree in 1949 with an award. A career with the prosecutor, he took up in 1953. In 1961 he was appointed as Deputy Attorney General for the second of the three prosecutors in the Eichmann trial, which changed his life.

In 1969 he was Attorney General. After his appointment to the Supreme Court of Israel as a judge in 1982, he worked there until his retirement in 1997. Subsequently he took over the presidency of the so-called Bachmann Committee, which decides on the appeals within the Israeli army.

He represented Israel at international conferences later. With his wife, Ruth, he lives in Jerusalem.

Awards

Writings

• Genocide trials in Israel, in: Jacob D. Fuchs Berger (ed. ): The Nuremberg Trials. International criminal law since 1945 International Conference on the 60th Anniversary - The Nuremberg Trials: .. International Criminal Law Since 1945 60th Anniversary International Conference. KG Saur, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-598-11756-6 Bilingual. Post: pp. 216-223, in English, German summary

Film

Gabriel Bach. The Prosecutor and the Eichmann trial by Wolfgang Schoen and Frank Gutermuth, TV Schoen film D 2010