by Elliot Nidam-Orvieto

Two new conferences this winter:
Justice and the Holocaust
Marking the 60th anniversary since the Nuremberg Trials, the International Institute for Holocaust Research is convening an international conference entitled, “Justice and the Holocaust: Post-WWII Trials, Representation, Awareness, and Memory,” on 19-21 December 2006. This three-day conference, which will take place in Yad Vashem’s main auditorium, will focus on the representation of the Holocaust in postwar trials and their impact on the awareness of the event.

The conference sessions will feature panel discussions not only about the more famous postwar trials, but also on those less well known, as well as the Nazis’ permissible and illicit use of law within the German legal system; issues pertaining to international criminal justice; the interaction between politics and punishment; justice via the media; the postwar trials and their aftermath in the various European countries; trials of Jewish and non-Jewish Kapos; and construction of Holocaust memory and the courtroom, among other topics.

The scholarly conference will host many high-ranking historians, scholars, and young researchers, including Head of the Research Institute Prof. David Bankier, Yad Vashem’s Chief Historian Prof. Dan Michman, Serge Klarsfeld of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Deported French Jews and Prof. Arieh Kochavi of Haifa University. Prof. Michael Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, will give the keynote address.

The Conference is made possible through the generous support of the Getrner Center for International Holocaust Conferences and the Gutwirth Family Fund.

The Holocaust and Medical Ethics
The International Institute for Holocaust Research and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – The Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa are planning a scholarly conference on the subject of “The Holocaust and Medical Ethics.” The conference is scheduled for 24-26 January 2007.

The conference will provide prominent scholars and young researchers in the field a venue to discuss various issues on the topic, including: Medical Ethics, Eugenics and Euthanasia; Medical Schools and the Teaching of Medical Ethics; Nazi Medical Experiments; and Jewish Doctors in the Ghettos.

For more information on the two conferences, click here, or Tel: +972-2-644 3480

The author is Academic Advisor to the Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research.

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