The Nuremberg Trials - One Man's Journey
The Nuremberg Trials Friday, 20 November 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the start of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg, usually called the Nuremberg Trials. These were so important to the future of Europe that I want to tell the story of one man. Birth Just over 27 years before this, in 1918, a boy was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His parents were Irish and Romanian by birth. His father’s family had come from rural Ireland in Queen’s County (now County Laois), migrating over generations to County Westmeath from where great uncles fled the Great Hunger (known as the Irish Potato Famine) to the USA, to County Carlow, and finally to Dublin where his father was born. His father became a lieutenant in the Egypt Labour Corps (ELC) where he met his future wife in Alexandria through one of her brothers who was also an officer in the ELC. His mother’s family had come from Romania where they were originally of Ashkenazi Jewish extraction. Her father had been baptised a Christian while re