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Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023) was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor [ 1] for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of the 12 subsequent Nuremberg trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.
As soon as I had been employed by the War Department, I phoned Gertrude, who had been patiently waiting for me all these years, and asked her how she would like to go to Europe for a brief honeymoon. “Oh,” she exclaimed, “this is so sudden.
Bravo, Mama! In 1964, Gertrude received a Bachelors degree from Hunter College, although she certainly was not a bachelor and was not likely to become one. Her goal was to become a social worker. Her first composition in college was on the need for universalism.
Jan 15, 2023 · Ben Ferencz secured the convictions of 22 Nazi death squad leaders 75 years ago in what was billed “the biggest murder trial in history.”
- Rich Schapiro
Apr 9, 2023 · The last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials has died aged 103. Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he secured the convictions of Nazi officers for war crimes and crimes ...
- Christy Cooney
Aug 31, 2016 · The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg. Benjamin Ferencz, 96, is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. Even as Ferencz holds...
Apr 8, 2023 · A Harvard-educated New York lawyer whose concept of evil was formed when he was a Jewish soldier in Europe and a war-crimes investigator at Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Dachau, Mr. Ferencz...
