Please join guest speaker, Martin Mendelsohn for his lecture entitled "The Perpetual Quest for Justice: Lessons (or Consequences) of the Holocaust."
Martin Mendelsohn has assisted German and U.S. prosecutors in Nazi War Crime trials for more than 40 years. He served as the first director of litigation for the U.S. Office of Special Investigations in the Department of Justice (1977-80) as well as in prominent Washington DC law firms. In 2009, he represented the Sobibor survivors in the trial of John Demjanjuk in Germany, who was found guilty as an accessory to the murder of over 27,000 Jews. He is co-author of the book The Last Nazi: Joseph Schwammberger and the Nazi Past about the 1993 trial of the Nazi Camp Commander extradited from Argentina.
He is counsel to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the largest international human rights organizations, with a special interest in fighting anti-Semitism past and present. Mendelsohn is a graduate of Brooklyn College and George Washington Law School.
Q&A with moderator, Stephen Greenwald, Director of the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform
Dessert reception to follow
Co-sponsored by the Wagner College Holocaust Programming & Education Center, The Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform and the Sarah Chait Memorial Foundation
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