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Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, dies
Updated On: 10 April, 2023 08:10 AM IST | Florida | Agencies
Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida
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Benjamin Ferencz, chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the trials in Nuremberg, Germany in 2010. Pic/AP
Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labour and concentration camps, has died. He had turned 103 in March.
Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida. Born in Transylvania in 1920, Ferencz immigrated with his parents to New York to escape rampant antisemitism. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz joined the U.S. Army and took part in the Normandy invasion during World War II. He then became an investigator of Nazi war crimes against US soldiers.
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