The Holocaust Centre of Toronto

This exhibit recalls the lawyers who were persecuted by the National Socialists and it addresses the illegal measures they had to endure. The exhibit makes the extent of loss caused by isolation, expulsion and murder painfully clear. Through different biographical portraits it also gives the viewer new insight into both the historical events and the legal realm.

The different stages of exclusion that led, on November 30, 1938, to the general ban from this long-standing profession are illustrated by documents and historical evidence - some quite unique. Extensive photographic material is used to present biographies in a lively form, vividly conveying through personal experiences the impact that these restrictions had on individuals. The life stories of well-known figures are presented alongside those of lesser-known lawyers. All of them lost their profession, most of them lost their country, and a large number lost their lives.

The exhibit deals with the defamed lawyers' lives and their ultimate fates. Sadly only very few of them found refuge in the U.S. The lives of the small group of German-Jewish lawyers showcased in this exhibit are representative of this professional group at large.

Beth Tzedec Congregation
1700 Bathurst Street, Toronto

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In 1933 the Nazis classified almost half of Germany's nearly 20,000 lawyers as Jewish. This internationally-aclaimed exhibit shows what happened to them - and to Germany's justice system.

A TRAVELLING EXHIBITION of the German Federal Bar, the Association of German Jurists, the Israel Bar Association and the German-Israel Lawyers' Association. Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.