Nuremberg prosecutor gives $1 million to US Holocaust museum
Ben Ferencz is the last surviving attorney who tried Nazi war criminals in 1945 military tribunals
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Ben Ferencz stands in the courtroom where the Nuremberg trials were held on August 9, 2012 in Nuremburg, Germany. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons
WASHINGTON — The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials has donated $1 million to the museum’s genocide prevention center.
The museum announced Wednesday that Ben Ferencz will donate $1 million to the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. The annual gift is renewable for up to $10 million.
Now 96 and living in Delray Beach, Florida, Ferencz was the chief US prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case, which tried 22 leaders of the killing units of the Nazis’ SS troops.
Ferencz has dedicated his life since then to the creation of the International Criminal Court, which could prosecute any government’s leaders for war crimes. The US has not signed on.
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.
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