Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights and the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic.

Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights

Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum (left) in conversation with Holocaust survivor Evelyn Konrad during the event “Remembering Vienna: An Evening with Evelyn Konrad”, held at Cardozo School of Law in New York City, 10 October 2024. Photo: Sari Goodfriend
Jewish people on a railway platform after disembarking from a train at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, 12 May 1944. Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE

Today, genocidal and other atrocity violence occurs in all corners of the globe, largely unabated and with near-total impunity. Even in places that do not make headlines, individuals and communities are targeted for identity-based discrimination and violence.