#ferencz

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Are all the clone Lorres like That (tm)? Depends on what you consider normal! Laszlo certainly thinks he’s the most well-adjusted of the lot, but that’s only if you measure your success in money and not in pet crocodiles

#clone brothers #petit laszlo #ferencz #peter lorre #drawing #doodle #agenda doodles #pet crocodile

[eretzyisrael]

Benjamin Ferencz was born on March 11, 1920, to a Jewish family in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. He was only 10 months old when his family moved to the United States and settled in the Lower East Side. In 1943, Ferencz graduated from Harvard Law School and enlisted in the U.S. Army as America was preparing to invade France. He served under General Patton and was awarded 5 battle stars. Towards the end of WWII, Ferencz was appointed as a war crimes investigator in the newly established War Crimes Branch of the U.S. Army. He gathered proof of Nazi brutality to convict individuals of international war crimes. Ferencz was a first-hand witness of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and was among the U.S. forces that liberated several concentration camps.  When asked about what he had witnessed, Ferencz said, “My mind would not accept what my eyes saw. … I had peered into hell.” By the end of 1945, Ferencz returned to New York and was soon recruited by the U.S. Government to join the team for the Nuremberg Trials. At just 27 years old, Ferencz was appointed Chief Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, which is considered the biggest murder trial in history. Ferencz and his team were responsible for the convictions of 22 Nazi death squad commanders, guilty of genocidal war crimes and crimes against humanity and were charged with the murder of over one million people. Here is a photo from this time last year on his 103rd birthday, reminding us to “do something that you love.” 

Ferencz passed away just a few weeks later on April 7, 2023. May his memory be a blessing.

humansofjudaism

#Benjamin Ferencz #war crimes investigator #Einsatzgruppen Trial

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Viktor Banka and Vivian Ferencz - FrenAk Company - Bobal Photography

#Vivian Ferencz #Viktor Banka #Bobal Photography #bailarín #danseur #dancer #ballerino #tänzer #ballerina #ballet men #dance #ballet #boys of ballet

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CONDOLENCES: Sgt. Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. Born in 1920 to a Jewish family in Transylvania, Ferencz was 10 months old when his family arrived in the US. After graduating Harvard Law School in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, landing in Normandy and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. Ferencz was later transferred to a newly created War Crimes Branch and tasked with collecting evidence of Nazi brutality. He joined the forces that liberated a number of concentration camps, including Buchenwald and Mauthausen. When asked about the haunting scenes he witnessed, Ferencz said he “had peered into hell.” He and his team collected indisputable evidence in Berlin, including the actual death registries. Ferencz was later appointed Chief Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen Case, in which 22 members of Himmler’s Einsatzgruppen death squads were charged with murdering over a million Jewish men, women, and children. At age 27, the young attorney’s first case was what many call the biggest murder trial in history. All 22 defendants were convicted and 13 were sentenced to death. Mr. Ferencz, a lifelong advocate for international justice, passed away yesterday at the age of 103.

May his memory be a blessing.

Contributor: Jill G. Mundinger

Humans of Judaism

#Sgt. Benjamin Ferencz #Nuremberg Trials #BDE #prosecutor

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"This was the tragic fulfillment of a program of intolerance and arrogance. Vengeance is not our goal, nor do we seek merely a just retribution. We ask this court to affirm by international penal action man's right to live in peace and dignity regardless of his race or creed. The case we present is a plea of humanity to law."

Ben Ferencz (1920-2023), prosecuting Nazis in 1947 at Nuremberg

#ben ferencz #WWII #einzsatzgruppen #thinking about how this month AND next month i'm going to family gatherings #and i'm gonna have to listen to people talk out of their fucking asses about israel and palestine #and i'm not gonna be able to argue with any of them #but i can meditate quietly on what it fucking means to be a person in the world #and what our responsibilities are to each other #and i hope when palestine prosecutes israel for their war crimes #they quote this man #they could even use this fucking paragraph #anyway next time i wanna get high someone fucking stop me #because all it does is make me philosophical and angry

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I made fanart of you (while having a sugar rush)

Good evening.

This is so very sweet! Such a peculiar choice for the reference as well; I was so young. And also quite like reality, especially for the nose length.

Is the paper perhaps burnt?

#franz liszt #franz antwortet #classical music #official composers #lafayoot1 #fanart #liszt ferencz

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A 2018 interview with Nürnberg Trials prosecutor Ben Ferencz, who passed away yesterday aged 103.

#ben ferencz #may his memory be a blessing #the interview is really fascinating #I think about it often

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Does anyone want the most amazing book recommendation ever?

Read the autobiography of Benjamin Ferencz. Just trust me on this. He wrote it at the age of 100 and recently died at the age of 103. Benjamin Ferencz story is so damn interesting. He was a lovely, funny, brilliant man that lived an extraordinary life and you should all read his book ASAP

#its not even a long book and i promise it never gets boring #just an amazing story #benjamin ferencz #book recs #book recommendations

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Richard Siken: A látható világ

A napfény átfolyik a bőrödön, az árnyékodon,                                                  a falhoz lapul.                        A hajnal eltörte szíved csontjait, akár a gallyakat. Nem számítottál erre,                                   a hálószoba kifehéredett, az égitestek fénye                                      arcon csap az öklök áramlatával.                Az arcodhoz emeled a kezed, mintha                         elrejthetnéd, a rózsaszín ujjak arannyá válnak, ahogy a fény egyenesen a csontokig hatol,              mintha egy szűk szobában lennél egy üvegbe zárva                                                 az összes apró világító porszemmel.                         A fényben nincs semmi titokzatosság, a titokzatos az, hogy van valami, ami visszatartja a fényt,                                                                        az áthaladástól.

Ferencz Mónika fordítása

#Richard Siken #Ferencz Mónika

[eretzyisrael]

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who prosecuted Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labour and concentration camps, has died.

He had just turned 103 in March.

Ben Ferencz

Ferencz died on Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida, according to St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials. The death also was confirmed by the US Holocaust Museum in Washington.

“Today the world lost a leader in the quest for justice for victims of genocide and related crimes,” the museum tweeted.

Born in Transylvania in 1920, Ferencz immigrated as a very young boy with his parents to New York to escape rampant anti-Semitism.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz joined the US Army in time to take part in the Normandy invasion during World War II.

Using his legal background, he became an investigator of Nazi war crimes against US soldiers as part of a new War Crimes Section of the Judge Advocate’s Office.

When US intelligence reports described soldiers encountering large groups of starving people in Nazi camps watched over by SS guards, Ferencz followed up with visits, first at the Ohrdruf labour camp in Germany and then at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp.

At those camps and later others, he found bodies “piled up like cordwood” and “helpless skeletons with diarrhea, dysentery, typhus, TB, pneumonia, and other ailments, retching in their louse-ridden bunks or on the ground with only their pathetic eyes pleading for help,” Ferencz wrote in an account of his life.

#ben ferencz #nuremberg trials #nazis #war crimes

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#benjamin-ferencz #nuremberg-trials #last-nuremberg-prosecutor #nazi-war-crimes #nazi-war-crime-trials

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When U.S. intelligence reports described soldiers encountering large groups of starving people in Nazi camps watched over by SS guards, Ferencz followed up with visits, first at the Ohrdruf labor camp in Germany and then at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. At those camps and later others, he found bodies “piled up like cordwood” and “helpless skeletons with diarrhea, dysentery, typhus, TB, pneumonia, and other ailments, retching in their louse ridden bunks or on the ground with only their pathetic eyes pleading for help,”

Ben Ferencz quoted in an obituary by Mike Schneider at AP News. Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, dies

Investigating Nazi Concentration Camps

#ben ferencz #RIP #facism #law #world court #honor

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Ben Ferencz turns 103 today.

He was a recent Harvard law graduate when he was tasked with helping to set up the United States’ first war crimes branch in Europe. He collected evidence of Nazi crimes as the Allies liberated concentration camps.

What he saw forever changed him: “I witnessed a deadly vision I can never forget—the crematoria aglow with the fire of burning flesh, the mounds of emaciated corpses stacked like cordwood waiting to be burned. I had peered into hell.”

Ben was asked to gather proof to be used in the Nuremberg trials, where Nazi perpetrators would be held accountable for crimes associated with the Holocaust. There was no prosecutor available when new evidence was uncovered documenting the murder of more than one million Jews by the Einsatzgruppen, perpetrators of mass shooting operations. So, at age 27, with no prior trial experience, Ben prosecuted the case—then known as “the biggest murder trial in history.”

The last living Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor, Ben has devoted his life to fighting for peace and justice. Learn why his motto is "never give up."

Photos: USHMM, courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

#Ben Ferencz #Nuremberg #War Crimes prosecutor

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Remembering the Last Nuremberg Trial Prosecutor, April 17, 2023

On April 7th, Benjamin Ferencz died. He was 103 and the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials - the first international war crimes tribunal in history. Vice News interviewed him in 2016. This is his story, in his own words.

VICE News

#obituary #Benjamin Ferencz #Hungarian #Romanian #Jewish #American #Nuremberg Trials #WWII #war #genocide #war crimes #humanism #antifascism #International Criminal Court #Vice #news

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Tears are the joy of the Hungarians!

#hungaria #franz liszt #liszt ferenc #liszt ferencz #hungarian rhapsody #magyar #dobornya #doborjan #andrassi #buda #pest #orchestra #symphonic poem #symphonic music #classical music #hungary #hungarian pride #Youtube

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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany’s death squad. The entire world was watching.

Today, we take a look at the Nuremberg trials and their role in defining international law after World War II.

This episode originally aired in 2018—this version includes an update with Benjamin Ferencz, who celebrated his 101st birthday earlier this year [2021].

#this is an extraordinary fascinating interview with an extraodinary fascinating guy #ww2 #benjamin ferencz #he is - among other things - very very funny #shoah //