Jackson Center Accepts Award in Memory of Justice Robert H. Jackson

L to R, Professor John Q. Barrett, Dr. David Machlis, Phyllis Heideman, and Greg Peterson with shofar presented to honor the Jackson Center at the MOTL Nuremberg Symposium
Credit: The Robert H. Jackson Center

On May 4, 2016, the Robert H. Jackson Center was presented with a shofar to honor the center for promoting Justice Jackson’s memory and legacy and for perpetuating his legendary work in implementing justice with fairness and decency as architect and Chief U.S. Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The shofar symbolizes the Jackson Center’s enduring call to action for liberty under law and never forgetting injustices of the past. International March of the Living Vice Chairman Dr. David Machlis and President Phyllis Greenberg Heideman made the presentation in memory of Justice Jackson. Jackson Center board member and co-founder, Gregory L. Peterson accepted the honor on behalf of the Robert H. Jackson Center.

In his opening statement at the Nuremberg Trial, Justice Jackson emphasized: “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.” The mission of the Robert H. Jackson Center is to advance public awareness and appreciation of the principles of justice and the rule of law as embodied in the achievements and legacy of Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court Justice and Chief US Prosecutor at Nuremberg. The Jackson Center envisions a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness and justice prevail.

The presentation was made during MOTL’s 2016 Nuremberg Symposium: The Double Entendre of Nuremberg: The Nuremberg of Hate & The Nuremberg of Justice held in The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The presentation and remarks from Machlis, Heideman, and Peterson can be viewed at http://motl.org/2016-nuremberg-symposium-live-stream/

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
International March of the Living, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
Credit: Jarek Wieslaw, Dreamstime

The International March of the Living is an annual educational program, which brings individuals from all over the world to Poland and Israel, in order to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate. The 2016 symposium program may be accessed at http://motl.org/nurembergsymposium/.

On May 4, 2016, the Robert H. Jackson Center was presented with a shofar by the International March of the Living to honor the center for promoting Justice Jackson’s memory and legacy and for perpetuating his legendary work in implementing justice with fairness and decency as architect and Chief U.S. Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

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