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- Birth nameBenjamin Berell Ferencz
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Benjamin Ferencz was born on March 11, 1920 in Soncuta-Mare, Romania. He is known for Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018), Radical Evil (2013) and We Shall Not Die Now (2019). He was married to Gertrude Fried. He died on April 7, 2023 in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA.
- SpouseGertrude Fried(March 29, 1946 - 2019) (her death, 4 children)
- Was the last Nuremberg trial prosecutor.
- During WWII, he served in the Army in Patton's forces. He was at Normandy, broke though the Maginot and Siegfried lines, crossed the Rhine at Remagen, and took part in the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. He was awarded five battle stars. He was present at, or arrived soon after, the liberation of several concentration camps.
- Bestowed the Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Museum for his commitment to justice.
- His family moved to the United States when Ben was 10 months old, and lived in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. His father was a janitor who became a house painter. Ben attended City College and Harvard Law School.
- Was the first prosecutor to use the term "genocide" in a court of law.
- I was very small. Five-foot-two at the height of my height. It kept me out of the Air Force. I wanted to be a pilot. I couldn't reach the pedals. But, by chance, I had a very good education.
- Law not war, that's my motto. Simple. Three words. It causes me pain to see the world as it is. But not to do anything, not to try, that would be a wrong.
- My hope is that people will not be content to look at the past and say never again, and then do nothing. So I am taking the measures for preventing it from ever happening again.
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