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to commemorate the

50th Anniversary
of the
Nuremberg Trials

Wayne State University

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THE CENTER
FOR LEGAL STUDIES

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

October 13 14, 1996

(313) 577-2679

(313) 577 - 3947

Statement of

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PURPOSE

The Nuremberg Trials were a landmark in the annals of the legal and moral conduct of states. The
events surrounding the trials continue to resonate today in the undying memories of the Holocaust and
in the unfolding tragedies of Bosnia and Rwanda. The purpose of this international conference is to
commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the trials by examining their historical, legal, philosophical,
and moral legacy. For two days, faculty and students at Wayne State University and members of the
greater Detroit community will have a rare opportunity to hear comments and observations by former
participants in the trials and world-renowned scholars concerning this momentous turning point in
modern history.

Conference

SCHEDULE

Sunday, Oct. 13th

Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake,West Bloomfield (between 14 Mile and Maple)

This session is free and open to the public.

7:30 p.m.

Discussion: A Former Nuremberg Prosecutor Reflects upon the Trials
Introduction and Chair: Hon. Avern Cohn, U.S. District Court

Henry T. King, Jr., Case Western Reserve School of Law

9:30 p.m.

Reception following presentation

Monday, Oct. 14th

All sessions will be held in Rooms F, G and H of the McGregor Memorial Conference Center
on the Wayne State University campus. A $25 charge for this session covers the cost of
registration and lunch.
Registration and continental buffet breakfast
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Welcome: David Adaniany, President, Wayne State University
9:30-9:45 a.m.
9:45-11:45 a.m. A. The Nuremberg Trials in Historical Perspective

Introduction and Chair — Marc Kruman, Chair, Dept. of History,Wayne State University
Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto — "Nuremberg and the Holocaust"
William J. Bosch, S.J., Le Moyne College — "American Judgment on Nuremberg"
David Cesarani, University of Southampton — "The Nazi War Crimes Issue in
Europe after Nuremberg: The Example of England"

Noon-2:30 p.m.
12:15-2:30 p.m.

Lunch
B. The Legal and Rhetorical Contexts of the Trials

Introduction and Chair — James K Robinson, Dean, Wayne State University Law School
Edward M. Wise, Wayne State University Law School — "Nuremberg as a
Paradigm Shift in International Law and Relations"
William J. Brazill, Jr., Wayne State University — "The Nuremberg Trials and the
`Not-Guilty' Plea"
Thomas B. Farrell, Northwestern University — "The Nuremberg Trials as Rhetorical
Performance"

2:30-2:45 p.m.

2:45 4:30 p.m.

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Break
C. The Nuremberg Trials in Contemporary Perspective
Introduction and Chair Hon. Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals

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Michael Berenbaum, Director, United States Holocaust Research Institute, U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum — "The Philosophical and Ethical Implications of
Nuremberg for Contemporary Society"
William J. Fenrick, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, International
Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia - "The Impact of Nuremberg on the
Bosnian War Crimes Trials"

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TH E D E TR O

4:30 p.m.

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Closing

David Weinberg, Director, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University

For registration forms and further information, please contact the
Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at (313) 577-2679.

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ecent changes at Sinai Hos-
pital have nothing to do
with the search process for
a hospital group with which
to affiliate, said Phillip Schaen-
gold, president and chief executive
officer of the Detroit-based health-
care provider.
`There has been no selection of
any partner for affiliation," Mr.
Schaengold said, adding that some
of the candidates have been asked
for more information in order to
narrow the field of potential part-
ners. "We hope to complete this
process by the end of the calendar
year."
His statement comes on the
heels of the sale of a private pe-
diatric practice housed in Sinai's
Samuel and Lillian Hechtman
Health Center in Bingham Farms,
the sale of a Sinai-based obstet-
rical and gynecological practice in
the same building, a letter re-
garding merger plans from the
chief of staff to hospital-employed
physicians and the departure of
the vice president of marketing
and corporate communications.
The recent events are coinci-
dental to the affiliation process of
Michigan's only independent Jew-
ish hospital, Mr. Schaengold said.
Medical Center Pediatrics, with
locations in West Bloomfield, De-
troit and Bingham Farms, was
sold last winter to the Detroit
Medical Center. Formerly a pri-
vate practice, its physicians will
maintain affiliation with several
area hospitals.
The practice is expected to va-

cate the Hechtman Center this fall
for a new location one building fur-
ther north on Telegraph Road.
The large obstetrics \ gynecol-
ogy practice of Dr. Seymour Ziegel-
man and Associates was sold to
Detroit Medical Center in recent
months. The practice, now with
DMC's Huron Valley Hospital,
will move to 5777 West Maple at
Daley in West Bloomfield, but its
physicians will maintain their af-
filiation with Sinai.
The loss of the two practices
from the Hechtman Center is not
expected to chip away at Sinai's
patient base. Sinai added three
OB \ GYN specialists to its staff to
replace the physicians in the
Ziegelman group and the pediatric
practice will continue to see chil-
dren born at Sinai.
Employees were brought up to
date on the affiliation process in a
recent letter from Dr. Samuel In-
denbaum, chief of staff. The letter
restated much of the information
contained in a July release to all
employees.
`The letter from Dr. Indenbaum
was simply a followup to the one
that I sent out regarding the af-
filiation search," Mr. Schaengold
said. "There is no new news."
Finally, Mr. Schaengold said
the departure of Vice President of
Marketing and Corporate Com-
munications Sherri Gelman had
everything to do with her wanti-
ng to spend more time with her
children and nothing to do with
the upcoming affiliation. ❑

Synagogue Suicide

A worker kills himself in the basement of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

round this time of year, po-
lice officers are not an un-
common site at area
temples and synagogues,
checking security before congre-
gants arrive to celebrate the New
Year.
But two weeks ago they paid a
different visit to Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. In
the basement fan room they found
the body of a maintenance work-
er, dead from a self-inflicted gun-
shot wound to the head.
On Thursday, Sept. 5, a co-
worker discovered the body of
Lonnie Williams, 34, at about 1
p.m. He was pronounced dead at
the scene by emergency medical

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workers.
Officer John Harris, spokes-
man for the Southfield Police De-
partment, said Mr. Williams was
last seen alive that morning by a
different co-worker.
According to detectives inves-
tigating the incident, Mr.
Williams, a Garden City resident,
had become despondent after his
girlfriend had broken off their re-
lationship.
Mr. Williams tape-recorded a
suicide message before calling the
woman on the fan room tele-
phone. He shot himself while talk-
ing to her. A shotgun was found
at his feet.

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