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Last Nuremberg prosecutor passes...
TAMPA, Fla. - Benjamin Ferencz was a Harvard Law School graduate, but he had never tried a case before becoming a prosecutor in the famous Nuremberg trials.
His presentation of evidence in 1946 led to the conviction of 22 former Nazi commanders who were charged with murdering more than one million people.
Ferencz, who was 27 years old when he prosecuted those cases, died Friday in Boynton Beach at the age of 103.
Ferencz grew up in New York City, but he was well-known by many in the Tampa Bay Area. In 2017, he spoke by teleconference at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Michael Igel was in attendance and was awestruck by what Ferencz accomplished.
"There wasn’t a blueprint for this, and he did the lion’s share before he was 30 years old," says Igel, the chairperson of the museum’s board, who attended the program.
TAMPA, Fla. - Benjamin Ferencz was a Harvard Law School graduate, but he had never tried a case before becoming a prosecutor in the famous Nuremberg trials.
His presentation of evidence in 1946 led to the conviction of 22 former Nazi commanders who were charged with murdering more than one million people.
Ferencz, who was 27 years old when he prosecuted those cases, died Friday in Boynton Beach at the age of 103.
Ferencz grew up in New York City, but he was well-known by many in the Tampa Bay Area. In 2017, he spoke by teleconference at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Michael Igel was in attendance and was awestruck by what Ferencz accomplished.
"There wasn’t a blueprint for this, and he did the lion’s share before he was 30 years old," says Igel, the chairperson of the museum’s board, who attended the program.
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