Last Words of the Last Nuremberg Prosecutor, by Michael Pakaluk

On Good Friday, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials died at an assisted living home in Boynton Beach, Florida.  Benjamin Ferencz was 103 years old.  Three years earlier, his wife, Gertrude, had passed away.  They were married in 1946 (do the edifying math) and had four children.  Benjamin would say that they never had a quarrel.

He was born in Transylvania in a Jewish family, which emigrated to the United States to escape persecution when he was a boy.  Growing up in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan, he attended CCNY and Harvard Law School, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served in Patton’s headquarters collecting evidence of war crimes. …