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Thursday 1 September
6:30pm

$10 – Tickets available at the door

In November 1945, the architects and enforcers of the Holocaust were brought before an international tribunal and held accountable for their crimes. Seventy years since the first judgement was passed down at Nuremberg, leading scholars and lawyers discuss the legacy of the trials and the enforcement of international humanitarian law.

Panellists:

Graham Thomas Blewitt was the Director of the Australian Nazi War Crimes Special Investigations Unit and Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Winton Higgins is a lawyer, writer and academic specialising in comparative genocide.  Winton sits on the board of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and has published two books: The Magnitude of Genocide (with Colin Tatz), and a novel, Rule of Law, based on the main Nuremberg trial.

Professor Konrad Kwiet  is the Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum and the former Chief Historian of the Australian War Crimes Commission.  He is the author of 10 books and over 80 articles, chapters and historical dictionary entries.

Moderated by Peerce Mcmanus  has principally practised with the Specialist Human Rights Team and Coronial Inquest Unit of Legal Aid NSW.  He has published academically on the subject of international criminal law with a focus on the development of crimes against humanity, war crimes and the practice of the International Criminal Court.