This year marks the 90th anniversary of the passing of the Nuremberg Race Laws, legislation that stripped Jews of their rights and codified Nazi racial hatred. Those laws became the legal foundation for genocide.
In that same city a decade later, justice was born at the commencement of the Nuremberg Trials, where the world declared that crimes against humanity would not go unpunished. Nuremberg thus stands as a symbol of history’s starkest duality: the Nuremberg of hate and the Nuremberg of justice.
Almost 10 years ago, on the 80th anniversary of the passing of the Race Laws (which were implemented in 1936 after the Berlin Olympics) and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, we were privileged, along with professor Alan Dershowitz, to chair the International March of the Living N