9 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials -the trials against a group of high-ranking Nazi war criminals-, the American lawyer Ben Ferencz, has died this Saturday at the age of 103, as reported by his son to NBC News. .
Ferencz was the last living prosecutor from the trials that marked the first time in history that serial killers were prosecuted for war crimes. They convicted 22 Nazi death squad commanders after World War II.
He was just 27 years old at the time and in his later career he played a crucial role in obtaining compensation for Holocaust survivors and the creation of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
A tireless defender of human rights, he also wrote nine books and dozens of articles, delivered countless speeches, and traveled the world until he was 90 years old spreading his motto of “law, not war.”
The New York lawyer, who turned 103 on March 11, was educated at Harvard and came from a family of Hungarian Jews.
