At 100 years old, Benjamin Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor of the biggest murder case in history: the Nuremberg trials, held in the wake of the Second World War to mete out justice to those responsible for the evils of the Holocaust.
Astonishingly, it was his very first case. At just 27, he was tasked with gathering evidence but when 22 members of the Einsatzgruppen – death squads who killed over a million Jews and other minorities – were charged, he offered to lead the prosecution for an overwhelmed legal team.
Benjamin’s family were Jewish immigrants who had left Transylvania for New York. His legal studies at Harvard were interrupted by war service.
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