Sept. 15, 2025, marks exactly 90 years since the passage of the infamous Nuremberg Laws in Germany in 1935. The laws, which excluded Jews from nearly all aspects of civic life, were a key step on a path that ultimately led to the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
On Monday, the International March of the Living and the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University will present a webinar examining the history and lessons of this chapter in human history, and how they can be applied to current events in Germany and around the world.
“As we teach our students on the March of the Living, Auschwitz was not built overnight and it did not miraculously appear out of the thin air,” said Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, president of the International March of the Living. “The passage of the Nuremberg Laws was a critical and ominous step in this tragic arch which culminated with the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust and millions of other innocent victims.”
Added Paul Miller, founder of the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University: “90 years ago today, Nazi Germany enacted laws stripping Jews of German citizenship, and from interacting with the German people. These laws were later extended to include blacks, Roma, and other minorities, and led to arrests, imprisonment, executions, and the horrors we know as the Holocaust.”
Miller said the center is committed to working directly with campus administrators and police, as well as community leaders and local law enforcement, to protect Jewish and other minority students and community members from discriminatory acts.
“It is our belief that actions such as these are critical to ensure that what the world said at the end of the Holocaust, ‘Never Again,’ will mean, ‘Never Again,’” he said.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Stephan Kramer, president of the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia, Germany. The agency is responsible for safeguarding Germany’s free and democratic order and monitoring terrorists, foreign intelligence activities and any other threats to the country’s security.
Kramer previously served as the director of the European Office on antisemitism of the American Jewish Committee in Brussels, secretary general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and head of the European Jewish Congress in Berlin.
The program will be featured on the JNS social media outlets as well as the International March of the Living YouTube channel.
