Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić

The Defiant Requiem Foundation invites you to a special conversation with board member Tommy Baer entitled Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić

In 1995, as the newly elected international president of B’nai B’rith, Tommy Baer made it his mission to find Dinko Šakić – the brutal commandant of the Jasenovac concentration camp near Zagreb, Croatia, and the last of the living major WWII war criminals – and bring him to justice. Using a combination of diplomatic pressure mixed with political sensitivity, and drawing motivation from his own personal Holocaust history – losing three grandparents in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp and escaping Nazi Germany with his family in 1939 at the age of one – Mr. Baer led a four-year effort that resulted in Dinko Šakić’s arrest, extradition, and conviction.

Please join The Defiant Requiem Foundation on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 6:30PM as Mr. Baer recounts this extraordinary journey in a conversation with Foundation President & Artistic Director Murry Sidlin.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here.

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