eichmann, in 1960, was caught by israeli agents in the argentine.srael. two days after he arrived in israel, the minister ofjustice called me, and he said "mr bach, i imagine you will be one of the prosecutors in the trial." "but would you be prepared to be in charge of the investigation?" the whole world spoke about it, in all the newspapers. you could see that eichmann was proud about anything he did in order to prevent the saving of a single jew. translation: and then they took my mother, and she said, let us go before her. they called mother and shot her, too. there was a man in israel. i put him on the stage as a witness, and then i asked "what happened to your family?" he said he had no idea what auschwitz meant. and he said "my wife, when we came there, was sent to the left." "which we were told afterwards was the gas chambers." "and i had a little daughter, two and a half years old, and of course, they also said to the left." "then they asked ‘what was your profession?‘ and i said i was an engineer in the army." "so sent to the right, they w

were a group of hungarian jews, traded for trucks and other material in negotiations between adolf eichmannolph kastner, a member of the jewish rescue committee. the group was diverted to bergen-belsen for six months and later they were able to get to switzerland. irene and manny volunteer at the museum. thank you. congressman, may i ask you to stand by the fifth candle. fifth candle will be lit by esther and harry. esther was sent from germany to england. her family was deported to a camp in france and later her parents were sent to auschwitz and killed. harry was born in berlin. kristalnacht, harry and his family fled berlin to antwerp. later fearing he would be selected for forced labor, harry moved the family to brussels, where they separately went into england until liberation. harry and esther are also museum volunteers. i would now ask congressman brad schneider to stand by the sixth candle. the sixth candle will be lit by marcel and ray. marcel and his family moved from paris to vichy france after the french citizenship of his romanian born parents were revoked. his family blended i

bounds of the united states, stretching back at least to the testimony of historians in the adolf eichmann trial in 1961. in france, the famous frankfurt auschwitz trials in which a former officials were put on trial and the french historian declined to participate in the proceedings because he thought it compromised his role as historian. you might know professor russo more recently as the person who was stopped for 10 hours at the houston airport by immigration authorities a couple of months ago. so there is a long and contentious history of this practice. we have four quite distinguished historians who will explain it for us today. each one of them will do a short presentation, talk a little bit about their work in this area and some of the issues raised by it, and then we will do a little bit of a roundtable discussion. after that, we will open and broaden the discussion to the audience. our panelists do not really need much introduction, so i am going to quite briefly go through there quite long and distinguished biographies. we will go in the order they are presented in the program.

senator eichmann. >> i am going back to the 30 year fixed-rate mortgage. >> do you believe a 30 year backstop is necessary? director watt: since i have taken this position, i have assiduously stuck to the notion that i should not be expressing why personal opinions as opposed to agency opinions. >> one of the greatest challenges we have in my state is housing, whether it is rural and affordable -- across the board. i have done economic roundtables , development roundtables, number one, access to housing, affordable housing. cannot have rural development without housing. or economic element. we need a workforce to come to north dakota. i understand your sigh and i understand what it means. the next question, in the absence of a federal backstop, what options would a middle-class family have to get access to a home? thinkor watt: again, i this committee would have to define those options. and i want to go back and re-emphasize my position again. my responsibility as conservatory is to manage -- as to manage what we have right now and stick to my knitting. when you get into defining wha