Spring 2026 1 JUSTICE is published by The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) 10 Daniel Frisch St. Tel Aviv 6473111, Israel office@ijl.org www.ijl.org © Copyright 2026 by IJL ISSN 0793-176X JUSTICE is published for members and friends of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Opinions expressed in JUSTICE are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of JUSTICE or the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. The accuracy of articles appearing in JUSTICE is the sole responsibility of their authors. Articles in English are welcome but should be preceded by a query to the IJL Advisory Board at office@ijl.org. Back issues of JUSTICE are available at www.ijl.org. JUSTICE No. 77, Spring 2026 Editor Mala Tabory, Dr. Special Advisor Elyakim Rubinstein, Prof., Justice (ret.) Advisory Editor Alan D. Stephens Academic Advisory Board Michael Bazyler, Prof. Rosa Freedman, Prof. Noemi Gal-Or, Dr. Oren Gross, Prof. Moshe Hirsch, Prof. Deborah Housen-Couriel, Adv. Robert Katz, Prof. Dan Michman, Prof. Arie Reich, Prof. Nicholas Rostow, Prof. Robbie Sabel, Prof. Amos Shapira, Prof. Malcolm N. Shaw, Prof. Joseph H. Weiler, Prof. Steven E. Zipperstein, Prof. Legal Editorial Staff Shani Birenbaum Jennifer Farrell, Esq. Gavriella Lazarus Graphic Design Climax Design Studio Ltd. www.climax-design.co.il | 03-7516747 Cover Photo On the right: A view looking down at the defendants bench at the Nuremberg trials, showing the defandants listening to proceedings with headphones, 1946. Photo credit: Dame Laura Knight, IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5930) On the left: Dachau Concentration Camp: Crematorium Ovens, April 30th 1945. Photo credit: The Dachau Drawings by Brian Stonehouse MBE, Abbott & Holder Contents President’s Message Meir Linzen 2 Articles Crimes in the Name of the Law: Judges and the Legal Machinery of the Holocaust Isaac Amon 4 The American Roots of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws Menachem Z. Rosensaft 10 American Naturalization Law, Immigration Law, Refugee Law, and the Holocaust: A Short History Paul Finkelman 16 The Nuremberg Trials, the Holocaust and Revenge Dina Porat 27 Holocaust Agunot in Sweden: Between Rabbis and Pastors Arie Reich and Seth Jacobson 32 “The Rumor About the Jews”: Antisemitic Conspiracy Narratives and Their Criminal Prosecution as Incitement of the People Lena Gautam and Niklas Pretsch 39 The New German “Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Art” Matthias Weller 47 Germany’s Journey to Holocaust Accountability and the Evolution of International Law David G. Cotter 55 Listening to All the Voices: Digital Humanities Methods and the Legal Legacy of the Eichmann Trial Renana Keydar 63 Epilogue: Law and Holocaust Rachel Levitan 70 BRIAN STONEHOUSE MBE (1918-1998) The Dachau Drawings April 30th, 1945 Brian Stonehouse MBE (1918-1998) was recommended for the Special Operations Executive in early 1942 and parachuted into occupied France later that year. Disguised as an art student (code name, Celestin), a radio concealed within his artist’s box, he was tasked with aiding the resistance movement and supplying information to the Allies from behind enemy lines. His mission lasted only a few months. Having spent too long transmitting on his radio he was located and arrested by the Vichy French and the Gestapo. Stonehouse was sent to the notorious Fresne prison, near Paris, where he suffered prolonged periods of interrogation and solitary confinement. Labelled Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) – Hitler’s directive designed to make resistance collaborators disappear – he was moved to four Concentration Camps; first Saarbrü chen (Neue Bremm), then Mauthausen (Wiener Neudorf), then StruthofNatzweiler, and finally, in September 1944, to Dachau. Dachau was liberated by the Americans on 29th April 1945. The following day, having witnessed and withstood the extreme brutality of the Nazi death camp system, Stonehouse bravely visited the Crematorium, Mortuary and Gas Chamber to record the atrocious scenes his captors had left behind. He made five drawings. [Cover, left]
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