The 2008 Program:
In July 2008 the Summer Institute welcomed its inaugural class of 35 students from over 12 Western New York private and public high schools. Participants heard presentations from the following speakers, the pictures of whom are available by clicking the picture on the right:
  • Concentration camp liberators Miron Wasik and Charles Zappo.
  • Holocaust survivor Joseph Diamond
  • Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz
  • Rwandan genocide survivor Victor Habinshuti
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Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz. Click on this picture for more 2008 images...
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with Sudanese Lost Boy Fidele Ding Dhan

  • Sudanese Lost Boy Fidele Ding Dhan
  • former Chief Prosecutor for Sierra Leone David Crane
  • Nuremberg expert Gregory Peterson
  • A panel of Ukrainian mayors discussing the Holodomor genocide
  • Local educator Tony Agnello describing efforts of Orchard Park schools to build a school in Afghanistan.
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The Inaugural 2008 Summer Institute Class