Virginia Beach Law Day examines Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany

by | May 17, 2013 | Other News

The Holocaust Commission and the Business and Legal Society of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater were partners in the reception and presentation of the profound and illuminating exhibit “Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich” as part of Virginia Beach Law Day on May 2.

A presentation, Eroding and Restoring the Rule of Law sponsored by the Virginia Beach Bar Association at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts included a panel discussion by U.S. Senior District Judge Henry Coke Morgan and Sandra Schulberg, film producer, showing excerpts of her film, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today. The film depicts that the rule of law was implemented to exact justice upon the Nazi regime. The Panel was moderated by Susan Blackman, Esq, Willcox & Savage.