Benjamin Ferencz

Born: 1920-03-11

Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023) was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. Later, he became an advocate of international rule of law and for the establishment of an International Criminal Court. From 1985 to 1996, he was an adjunct professor of international law at Pace University.


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Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"

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Released: 2022-01-25

Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the...

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War and Justice

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Released: 2024-06-06

War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal...

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Watchers of the Sky

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Released: 2014-01-20

Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria,...

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Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

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Released: 2018-09-07

A fascinating portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who...

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Getting Away with Murder(s)

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Released: 2021-10-01

Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent...

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We Shall Not Die Now

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Released: 2019-10-12

A chronicle of the Holocaust, told by the resilient survivors who lived through it.

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The Anatomy of Evil

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Released: 2005-11-25

A Danish film essay about human evil and the motivations of mass murderers in war situations. A...

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Law Not War

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Released: 2015-11-12

Chronicles the adventurous life of Hungarian-born Jewish lawyer Benjamin Ferencz, who fled to...

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American Experience

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First aired: 1988-10-04

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...

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