"THE RETURN FROM THE OTHER PLANET" Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB6KpNGv1JM&si=jw6USvwHgo1elejN
"In his opening statement, De-Nur described Auschwitz in unearthly metaphors, saying:
I do not see myself as a writer who writes literature. This is a chronicle from the planet Auschwitz. I was there for about two years. The time there is not the same as it is here, on Earth. (...) And the inhabitants of this planet had no names. They had no parents and no children. They did not wear [clothes] the way they wear here. They were not born there and did not give birth ... They did not live according to the laws of the world here and did not die. Their name was the number K. Tzetnik.[9]
After saying this, De-Nur collapsed and gave no further testimony.
Tom Hurwitz, son of the TV producer showing the trial live at the time, was present during this testimony and recounts the collapse as a stroke.[10]
In an interview on 60 Minutes broadcast on 6 February 1983, De-Nur recounted the incident of his fainting at the Eichmann trial to host Mike Wallace.
Was Dinur overcome by hatred? Fear? Horrid memories? No; it was none of these. Rather, as Dinur explained to Wallace, all at once he realized Eichmann was not the god-like army officer who had sent so many to their deaths. This Eichmann was an ordinary man. 'I was afraid about myself,' said Dinur. '... I saw that I am capable to do this. I am ... exactly like he.'[11]
In her report on the trial, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt perhaps sarcastically implies that his fainting might have been because he was 'deeply wounded' by the polite efforts of the prosecutor Gideon Hausner and presiding judge Moshe Landau to get him to speak in more concrete descriptive terms.[12]"
"Yehiel De-Nur"
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