In Memoriam: Peter Less 1920-2019
Remembering a former AIIC Member, Nuremberg interpreter, and ATA Alexander Gode Medal Laureate
Remembering a former AIIC Member, Nuremberg interpreter, and ATA Alexander Gode Medal Laureate
On August 8th, 1945, three months after the allied victory over Nazi Germany, the four victorious great powers signed an agreement in London. The major war criminals would be tried and punished.
Interview with Elke Limberger-Katsumi, curator of the AIIC exhibition on Nuremberg interpreters
A visit in tweets, photos and video to an exhibit on modern day conference interpreting and its relationship to the international justice system.
An exhibition on the origins of simultaneous interpretation organized by AIIC and the UN (New York).
A homage to the Nuremberg interpreters and an exploration of conference interpreting today.
The goal: ensure effective multi-lingual communication. The means: good organization, the best equipment available, and teams of top simultaneous interpreters.
L’interprétation simultanée, des pionniers à nos jours.
Jurists and interpreters underline the crucial role of interpreters in judicial proceedings in AIIC sponsored event in London.
The professionalism of the Nuremberg interpreters highlights shortcomings in current UK interpreting standards.
Snapshots of the 'One trial - Four languages' events offered by AIIC Germany the first week of August 2014.
Simultaneous interpretation was used prior to the Nuremberg Trial, although information is contradictory and incomplete.
Tweets and photos from the second event in the series "One trial – four languages", jointly organised by the Memorium Nuremberg Trials and AIIC Germany on 2 June 2013.
Revisiting the historic event and the role interpreters played in it was made more poignant by the setting - the very courtroom where the trials took place.
Peter Less attended the Geneva School of Conference Interpretation and interpreted at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.
New Year is traditionally a time for taking stock: AIIC, with its 2685 members across the world, should be no exception.
The War was over. An International Military Tribunal had been set up in Nuremberg to try the leading Nazi war criminals. The Main Trial lasted from November 1945 until the verdicts on 30th September 1
Review of "The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation: The Nuremberg Trial" by Francesca Gaiba, 1998.