We just lost Benjamin Ferencz. Age 103. Born in Transylvania, reared in Hell’s Kitchen poverty — his father a janitor. Harvard law graduate, lawyer, US Army soldier. Last surviving prosecutor of 1947’s historic Nuremberg trials. January 2002. I sat alongside prosecutor Ferencz. Front row. In Courtroom 600, Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. Hitler’s actual courtroom. Huge chamber. Marble walls. Wooden seats. Crystal chandeliers. Five elevators. The windows were bricked up so no one could shoot in. The cauldron of Naziism. Where it began with the Third Reich’s legal profession swearing allegiance to the Fuehrer. Twenty defendants. Convicted of killing 1...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
