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20 quotes from Benjamin B. Ferencz: 'Gratitude completes you in a different way to anything else.', 'It’s only by understanding another person’s way of thinking that you’ll be able to reason with them and perhaps change their mind.', and 'The Ethics professor, Zechariah Chafee, taught me about tolerance and the need to treat all human ...
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Nov 16, 2022 · “Nor do we seek merely a just retribution.” Rather, he said, “the case we present is a plea of humanity to law.” Benjamin Berell Ferencz (pronounced Fer-RENZ) would make that plea his life’s...
Jun 27, 2021 · By Brit McCandless. June 27, 2021 / 6:59 PM EDT / CBS News. More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial...
- A Childhood in Hell’s Kitchen
- A Witness to The Holocaust
- A Chance Encounter
- ‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’
- ‘All Roads Lead to Nuremberg’
- ‘Law, Not War’
- Bones in The Grass
When the impoverished family arrived in New York City, Ferencz’s father, a one-eyed cobbler, had difficulty finding work. So they moved into the dank cellar of a tenement house in Hell’s Kitchen, one of the nation’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighbourhoods. Surrounded by thieves, gangs and violent criminals during his youth, Ferencz gravitated ...
Ferencz graduated from Harvard in 1943 and was finally inducted into an artillery battalion of the US army. Arriving in Europe in December of that year, he found himself at some of the most significant American battlefields of the war, including the landing beaches of Normandy, the frozen forests of the Battle of the Bulge, and the parapets of the ...
Not long before Ferencz’s discharge, the Allies had begun prosecuting major Nazi war criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. This was the first of the famous Nuremberg trials. It was followed by the “Subsequent Nuremberg trials” of other Nazi leaders before American military tribunals. Shortly after returning from Europe,...
The stage was set for what the Associated Press at the time described as “the biggest murder trial in history”. The men in the dock included the infamous lead defendant, SS Brigade Fuhrer Otto Ohlendorf, an economist with a PhD who was the commander of Einsatzgruppen D, which murdered nearly 100,000 people in southern Ukraine and the Caucasus durin...
By the 1970s, Ferencz was no longer looking just to prosecute those accused of committing atrocities; he was also focusing on prevention. His advocacy contributed to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314, which sought to define the crime of aggression. He played a significant role in the 1998 adoption of the Rome Statute of the Internatio...
Ferencz is known for saying “war makes murderers out of otherwise decent people.” Speaking to Al Jazeera ahead of his birthday, he expanded on this idea, saying: “We must stop glorifying war. I have never heard of a war that does not kill the innocent.” To Ruti Teitel, a professor at New York Law School, Ferencz’s enduring legacy is his work for th...
When visiting Auschwitz for the first time just after the war, Benjamin Ferencz picked up small bones in the grass. He says he told himself: “I do not want to forget what I came to Germany for.” “We think progress is built on institutions,” Drumbl reflects. “But sometimes a single individual, bucking trends, can make a huge impact. “Ben’s qualities...
Home. Resources. Find Resources. Benjamin Ferencz is the only surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, which, soon after the conclusion of WWII, held Nazi leaders to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the war. Specifically, Mr. Ferencz was the Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen case, in which 22 ...
The Museum paid tribute to the exceptional leadership and persistence that Mr. Ferencz demonstrated in his steadfast pursuit of accountability and redress for victims of genocide and other related international crimes.
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