(JTA) — Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials that convicted Nazi ringleaders for crimes against humanity, died Friday in Florida. He was
YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS. Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after WWII, a human rights activist and Honorary Co-Chair of the Selection Committee of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity has died at the age of 103.
YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS. Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after WWII, a human rights activist and Honorary Co-Chair of the Selection Committee of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity has died at the age of 103.
At the age of 27, Benjamin Ferencz was named chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 members of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes; in 2022, the U.S. Congress awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor