In a ceremony on 12 May 2025, new memorial plaques were unveiled at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice and the Judicial Training Center. The plaques honour Jewish jurists persecuted under the Nazi regime and key figures of the Nuremberg Trials.
At the Judicial Training Center in Muggenhofer Straße, Nuremberg, rooms now bear the names of Dr Martin Frankenburger and Dr Albert Rosenfelder, both Jewish lawyers who were victims of Nazi terror. Additionally, four plaques in the Palace of Justice commemorate contributors to the Nuremberg Trials: Lieselotte Balte, Francis Biddle, Dr Aline Chalufour, and Robert H. Jackson. These individuals played essential roles in the legal reckoning with Nazi crimes.
This initiative, a joint project of the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Memorium Nuremberg Trials, aims to preserve the memory of injustice and the commitment to law and justice.
Bavarian Minister of State for Jutsice Georg Eisenreich highlighted the importance of remembrance at these historic sites. President of the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg Dr Thomas Dickert and Nuremberg Academy Director Prof. Dr Christoph Safferling emphasised the lessons to be drawn for today’s legal professionals. Deputy Mayor Christian Vogel reaffirmed Nuremberg’s role as a symbol for peace, human rights and justice. (bk)