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Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor at age 97, will be the keynote speaker at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 25th Anniversary Dinner titled "What You Do Matters" on Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. to take place at the Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Dr. in Boca Raton.

Seventy years ago, Ben Ferencz presented his opening remarks in what came to be known as the “biggest murder trial in history.” Today, he is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, a series of proceedings to hold Nazi leaders and followers accountable for the crimes of the Holocaust.

Blank faces of Nuremberg guilty still haunt the last living prosecutor who brought them to justice.

Benjamin Ferencz started his legal career in the spotlight — his first trial was as a chief U.S. prosecutor of the Nazi extermination squads in Nuremberg. Since then, he's spent seven decades fighting for peace and international justice.

Dear Friends, On December 6, 2016, President Obama, as Commander in Chief, made his farewell address to the US Military. Toward the closing, he made the following statement: “We are a nation that stands for the rule of law and strength in the law of war. When the Nazis were defeated, we put them on trial. Some couldn’t understand that; it had never happened before. But as one of the ...

When the verdicts came in, all 22 Nazis were found guilty, and 13 of them were sentenced to death by hanging.

The Washington Post recently published a story in which they featured Ben Ferencz and reviewed some of the achievements of his life thus far, and goals ahead. You can read it here.

Excerpt: But U.S. war-making is not just dangerous and irrational. It is also a crime. The judges at Nuremberg defined aggression, attacking or invading other countries, as the “supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The UN Charter goes one step further and prohibits the threat as well as the ...