FSWC October 30, 2006

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
For Holocaust Studies

NEWS RELEASE

            
 “LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS” EXHIBIT TO APPEAR IN TORONTO FOR THE FIRST TIME

BOB RAE TO SPEAK

TORONTO  - To mark the opening Holocaust Education Week (November 1-9/06), former Ontario Premier and Federal Liberal  leadership candidate Bob Rae will discus how the Nazis twisted the idea of the rule of law, how law was used as an instrument of oppression from 1933-45 and how the Nuremberg Laws became the Nuremberg Trials. He will also discuss how broad concepts of international and humanitarian law are essential to our ideas of justice today.

This program coincides with the Toronto opening of the highly-acclaimed exhibit LAWYERS WITHOUT RIGHTS: the Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany After 1933.

Originally mounted by the German Federal Bar and German Jurists Association, it is sponsored by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, the German Embassy and the Israel Embassy, and runs throughout the week

Opening Night

When:    
Wednesday November 1/06
7:30pm

Where:   
Beth Tzedec Congregation 
1700 Bathurst St
Toronto

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ABOUT FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES 
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies is a Canadian human rights organization dedicated to fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. With over 40,000 members of all faiths, it confronts important contemporary issues including racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and genocide. Friends is affiliated with the world-wide, Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an accredited Non-Government Organization with status at international agencies, including the United Nations, UNESCO, OSCE and the Council of Europe, with offices in New York, Miami, Paris, Jerusalem, BuenosAires, and Toronto.  Simon Wiesenthal died in 2005 after devoting his life to preserving the memories of the victims of the Holocaust, while simultaneously seeking justice for the war criminals.