Zvi Aharoni
Zvi Aharoni ( Hebrew צבי אהרוני; * February 6, 1921 as Hermann Aronheim in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † May 26, 2012 in Exeter , England ) was an Israeli Mossad agent. He was instrumental in the capture of Adolf Eichmann .
Life
Hermann Aronheim (later Zvi Aharoni) came from a middle-class family, the father was a lawyer. He attended the Friedrichsgymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder) .
1938 went Hermann, his brother and the mother of Palestine . He lived in a kibbutz for a few years , worked for the Hagana protection organization , joined the British Army, where he gained experience in secret services and interviewing suspects. He later joined the newly formed Israeli secret service Mossad .
He is considered the Mossad agent who identified "Ricardo Klement" as Adolf Eichmann .
On February 26, 1960, Zvi Aharoni flew to Buenos Aires under a false name and with a diplomatic passport. He and other agents observed Garibaldi Street in the San Fernando district. On March 19th at 2 pm Aharoni saw Klement alias Eichmann for the first time and wrote about it in a detailed report: "[...] a man of about 50 years of medium height and figure with bald head and horn-rimmed glasses"
Aharoni observed and photographed Eichmann through a hole in the tarpaulin of a rented pickup truck with a briefcase camera. After the identity was secured, the hot phase of the spectacular action began.
On May 11, 8:05 p.m., Eichmann got off the bus near his house. The strongest of the Israelis tried to grab him by the neck and pull him into a limo, but both fell into a ditch. When Eichmann was lying in the car, the hunter warned him : "If you resist, you will be shot." Eichmann replied: "I have already surrendered to my fate."
In 1970 Aharoni left the Mossad and moved to his retirement home in southern England.
literature
- with Wilhelm Dietl : The hunter: Operation Eichmann - What really happened , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-05031-7 .
Web links
- Zvi Aharoni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9481084/Zvi-Aharoni-and-Yaakov-Meidad.html
- ↑ a b The Eichmann hunter breaks his silence. In: welt.de . March 28, 1996, accessed December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ nachrichten.t-online.de
- ^ Loud Eichmann kidnappers. In: FAZ.net . May 3, 1996, accessed December 17, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aharoni, Zvi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aronheim, Hermann (maiden name); צבי אהרוני (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Mossad agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 2012 |