across the globe watched as adolf eichmann, the notorious nazi official known as the architect of the holocaust, stood trial in jerusalem for crimes against humanity. but i do remember it happening, and i remember more of the aspect of like they got this guy. i remember from that point on it certainly people began to understand what this was about. reporter: 11 months earlier, israeli agents had captured eichmann in argentina where he d been living as a fugitive for a decade. they brought eichmann to jerusalem to face justice for his role in the systemic execution of more than six million jews during world war ii. your grandma is here, she s the fourth from the right. right. the vast majority of the people in this picture did not make it. did not survive. reporter: my father, the son of two holocaust survivors, remembers the trial as a turning