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he Zekelman Holocaust
Center is hosting a virtual
program on Sun., Oct. 30, at
2:30 p.m. about the life and death of
Baron Otto von Wächter, based on
Philippe Sands’ successful BBC radio
podcast, The Ratline. Pieced together
through two decades of family
correspondence, the tale of Wächter’s
life and years evading justice as a
devoted Nazi and man on the run
will be told during a live virtual
discussion with Sands.
Sands is a human rights lawyer and
Baillie Gifford Prize-winning author of
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on
the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive. A practicing
barrister at Matrix Chambers, Sands
appears frequently as counsel before the
International Court of Justice and other
international courts and tribunals and
sits as an international arbitrator.
A CNN and BBC World Service
contributor, he is also professor of
laws and director of the Centre on
International Courts and Tribunals at
University College London.
“Philippe Sands and his colleagues
were able to uncover a great deal of
information regarding the mysterious
life and death of devoted Nazi Baron
Otto von Wächter as he evaded justice
for years,” said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld,
CEO of the Zekelman Holocaust
Center. “His insights and research
should provide for a very informative
and spirited virtual discussion.”
Sands and his contem-poraries
uncovered key details about
Wächter’s life and family history
by studying an archive of letters,
diaries and other materials that were
produced over the course of the
tumultuous years between 1929 and
1949.
A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder,
love, Cold War espionage, a
mysterious death in the Vatican and
the Nazi escape route to Argentina,
The Ratline delves into the life and
mysterious death of Otto von Wächter.
The community partners for the
event are the Michigan State University
History Department and the Michael
and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish
Studies and Modern Israel at MSU.
Registration for the virtual program is available at
HolocaustCenter.org/October.
On the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
Supported through the generosity of The Jewish Fund and the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Family Foundation.
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