The Goethe Institute in Athens and the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) are organizing an exhibition and conference to commemorate 70 years since the Nuremberg Trial on November 10, 1945. The exhibition, titled “Nuremberg: One trial – four languages”, is curated by  interpreter Jennifer Fearnside-Bitsios who takes a look at the “people behind the voices” in the historic trial. The display and conference hope to outline the extraordinary challenges they faced as first interpreters and highlights the role of interpretation in the field of Justice and basic human rights.

Apart from the exhibition, events will be held under the general title “The birth of simultaneous interpretation in the Nuremburg Trial”:

Thursday, November 5 Roger Raminker, grandson of legendary interpreter Andre Kaminker, who was the first president of AIIC, will make a keynote speech.

Friday, November 13 A conference will be held with speakers – among others – Vasilis Skourtis, former president of European Union Court, Angela Kail, president of AIIC and Maja Popovic, interpreter at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

The conference will open with the historic interview given in 2014 by Nuremberg interpreter Siegfried Ramler, titled “Memories from Nuremberg”. The interview was filmed in London by Britain’s and Ireland’s AIIC.