ABSTRACT The article focuses on three “Holocaust trials”: the Kapo Trials (1950–70); the “Kasztner Trial” (1953–58); and the Eichmann Trial (1961), to decipher the illusion of collective memory that marks the Eichmann Trial as the first Israeli legal confrontation with the Holocaust. It argues that the historical–legal oblivion into which the “Kapo Trials” sank is not a product of the mere passage of time, but a systematic reconstruction located in the socio-political and legal contexts of Israel’s early years. The article shows that, when neglecting certain socio-legal conditions, the law can operate not only as a “lieu de mémoire” as Pierre Nora showed us but also as a site of forgetting.

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虚幻的集体记忆：重新审视法律在以色列大屠杀叙事中的作用

摘要 本文关注三个“大屠杀审判”：卡波审判（1950-70）；“卡斯特纳审判”（1953-58）；和艾希曼审判（1961 年），以破译集体记忆的错觉，这标志着艾希曼审判是以色列首次对大屠杀进行法律对抗。它认为，“卡波审判”所陷入的历史-法律遗忘不仅仅是时间流逝的产物，而是位于以色列早期社会政治和法律背景下的系统重建。这篇文章表明，当忽视某些社会法律条件时，法律不仅可以作为皮埃尔诺拉向我们展示的“回忆录”，而且可以作为遗忘的场所。