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Tuviah Friedman Presenting Photographs from His Archive upon Learning That He Had Been Awarded a Prize for His Role in the Capture of Adolf Eichmann – Press Photograph - Tuviah Friedman Presenting Photographs from His Archive – Associated Press Photograph – Haifa, 1972. Press photograph of Nazi hunter Tuviah Friedman, director of the Documentation Center in Haifa, presenting a journalist with photographs from the Center’s archive, including documentation of executions and Nazi crimes. Along the edge of the photograph appears an Associated Press news caption dated November 24, 1972, under the heading “WITH HAL McCLURE'S STORY ON EICHMANN REWARD.” It states that Friedman had received notification from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir that he had been awarded a prize for his assistance in the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Tuviah Friedman (1922–2011), a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals and collecting documentation and testimonies concerning their crimes. His efforts to locate Eichmann began years before Eichmann’s capture in Argentina in 1960, and he was among the prominent activists who worked over the years to keep the search for him in the public eye. The reverse bears a library stamp from Houston, Texas, dated December 3, 1972. Approx. 25 × 20 cm. Good condition.