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Lecture

Philip Rubenstein
Who Killed Rabbi Kohn?

Thursday 3.02.2022

Summary

Philip Rubenstein explores the mysterious death of Rabbi Kohn and the subsequent court cases, examining what we do and do not know about who may have killed him.

Philip Rubenstein

an image of Philip Rubenstein

Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which, in the mid-to-late 1980s, campaigned to bring Nazi war criminals living in the UK to justice. Philip was also the founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust and played a role in getting the study of the Shoah onto the national school’s curriculum in the UK. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and continuity from one generation to the next.

He’s buried in Lemberg. The gravestone that I showed was an old photo. Like pretty much every remnant of Lwow, Lemberg, it was utterly destroyed by the Nazis, who took a population in 1941 that was 120,000 Jews and reduced it by the end of the war to 200, 300.