Special Broadcast: Monday, September 15, 2025, 9:0AM EST

September 15, 2025, marks 90 years since the passage of the infamous Nuremberg Laws in Germany on Sep 15, 1935. The laws, which virtually excluded Jews from all aspects of civic life in Germany, was a critical step in a path that culminated with the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of other innocent victims.

To mark this anniversary, International March of the Living and the Rutgers University Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience, are presenting a program that will examine the history and lessons of this tragic chapter in human history, and how we may apply its lessons to current events in Germany and the world.

“As we teach our students on the March of the Living, Auschwitz was not built overnight and it did not miraculously appear out of the thin air. The passage of the Nuremberg Laws was a critical and ominous step in this tragic arch with culminated with the murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of other Innocent victims,” said Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, president of the International March of the Living.

“90 years ago today, Nazi Germany enacted laws stripping Jews of German citizenship, and from interacting with the German people. These laws were later extended to include blacks, Roma, and other minorities, and led to arrests, imprisonment, executions, and the horrors we know as the Holocaust,” said Paul Miller, founder of the Rutgers University Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience. “The Rutgers Miller Center is committed to working directly on campuses with administration officials and campus police, as well as directly with community leaders and community police, to protect Jewish and other minority students, and minority community members, from discriminatory acts. It is our belief that actions such as these are critical to ensure that what the World said at the end of the Holocaust, “Never Again”, will mean, “Never Again,” he added.

The keynote lecture will be given by Stephan Kramer, President of the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia, Germany. The Agency’s task is to protect the free and democratic basic order and to monitor extremist terrorists and foreign intelligence activities directed against Germany, and any other efforts posing a threat to security in Germany. 

Almost ten years ago, on the eve of the 2016 March of the Living, International March of the Living convened the Nuremberg Symposium at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, focusing on the Nuremberg Laws and the Nuremberg Trials.  The symposium materials were subsequently published in a special edition of the Loyola University Law School International & Comparative Law Review, which has since been downloaded more than 23,500 times.

The lessons of Nuremberg, focusing on the legalization of state-sponsored hate, are worthy of noting today in this age of rampant antisemitism and Holocaust denial and revisionism.

The program, which premieres on  Monday, September 15, 2025 at 9:00am EST,  will be featured on JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) media outlets as well as the International March of the Living Youtube channel and other media.