On April 12, 2018, Professor John Q. Barrett was one of 13,000 participants in this year’s International March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau, horrific sites in Poland of Nazi imprisonment, torture, enslavement, and extermination, primarily of Jews, during World War II.
On the following day, Professor Barrett delivered a keynote lecture, “Justice Jackson and the Holocaust,” at a conference in Krakow, Poland, for lawyers, judges, academics, and others from the U.S. and other countries. The conference was co-sponsored by the International March of the Living, Rutgers Law School, and the New Jersey State Bar Association. For video, click here; Professor Barrett’s lecture begins around the 2:47:10 mark.
Professor Barrett is biographer of Justice Robert H. Jackson, U.S. chief prosecutor at and principal architect of the 1945-1946 international Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals. Professor Barrett writes The Jackson List, which reaches over 100,000 readers around the world.
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