René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights

Professor Jay Winter, Yale University Remembrance is not a human right but the precondition for the effective establishment and maintenance of a regime of human rights. In this lecture Professor Winter explores the central role played by Holocaust remembrance in the framing and passage of one of the foundational human rights documents of the twentieth century: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Jay Winter will focus on the role of the French jurist, resistance leader, and Jewish statesman, René Cassin, architect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. For more information about the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism based at Birkbeck, University of London - www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk