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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel views Nuremberg collection at Stetson University College of Law


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April 10, 2002:  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, author, and internationally recognized humanitarian Elie Wiesel described his recent visit to the Nuremberg collection at Stetson University College of Law "a moving experience."

"To visit the Nuremberg Archives at Stetson University's Law School is a moving experience of remembering and learning. Anyone dealing with the Second World War, historians as well as students of international jurisprudence, would benefit from consulting them. They represent an immense source of information and knowledge," said Wiesel.

Stetson's Law Library and Legal Information Center houses more than 100 volumes of court transcripts and personal papers donated by a former dean of the law school, Harold L. Sebring, who served as a judge during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 to 1947. These papers offer chilling details of Nazi war crimes committed on inmates in concentration camps.

The International Military Tribunal was convened following the conclusion of World War II to hold accountable the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust. The Nuremberg Trials were part of this tribunal.

While at Stetson, Wiesel hosted an international teleconference with an Argentinean-based humanitarian organization.

Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism and genocide.

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