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by Oliver Beauvallett, Justice Info Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor died in the night of April 7 to 8 at the age of 103. French magistrate Olivier Beauvallet, who worked on the French edition of his autobiography, pays tribute with a look back at the life of this man who was part of international justice from its beginnings to the present day. [Read Article]

Michael Bayzler and Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, for Jewish Journal Together we offer this loving tribute in memory of Benjamin Berrel Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials, who passed away this week at the age of 103 years old. We do so as mutual admirers of Ben Ferencz, whose pursuit of justice for victims of the Holocaust as a young prosecutor at ...

In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression. Read obituary here.

By Emily Langer, The Washington Post Ben Ferencz was a 27-year-old lawyer with no courtroom experience when he prosecuted what would be called the largest murder case in history. Standing 5-foot-2, he nearly disappeared behind the lectern in the packed courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947. Mr. Ferencz, a Transylvanian-born Jew who had arrived in the United States as an infant, presented ...

By Haley Ott, CBS News As Ukrainian authorities and the international community work to meticulously collate mounting evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials of World War II-era Nazi officials told CBS News that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "certainly" a war criminal. Benjamin Ferencz, now 102, fought in some of the most ...

Benjamin Ferencz jagte Adolf Hitler, in den Nürnberger Prozessen klagte er Nazi-Massenmörder an. Im Interview mit t-online berichtet der 101-Jährige, wie er Beweise in KZs fand.

Rep. Barbara Lee, Noam Chomsky, and Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz issued prescient warnings about the war before it was launched.

By Leslie Stahl, CBS News It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz. When we first reported on him back in 2017, he was 97 years old, barely 5 feet tall, and he had served as prosecutor of what's been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; and the defendants, a group of German SS officers ...