Benjamin Ferencz
Also Known As: Benjamin Berell Ferencz, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Ben Ferencz
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Csolt, Szatmár County, Hungary [now Ciolt, Șomcuta Mare, Romania]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 07, 2023
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Getting Away with Murder(s)
Overview: Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women and children. The Allies knew where a great many of the murderers could be found - Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous countries in South America. The Allies unanimously agreed to prosecute those responsible when they drew up The London Agreement in August 1945, but, after the late 1940s, these very same Allies did almost nothing. Why were so many were actively permitted to get away with their crimes?
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
Overview: Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-01-25
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War and Justice
Overview: War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC), thanks to unprecedented access to Ben Ferencz, Luis Moreno Ocampo (ICC’s first prosecutor), and Karim Khan (its current prosecutor). Film directors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile follow Ocampo around the world as he enlists the support of Academy Award-winning Angelina Jolie and as they join Ferencz in the uphill battle against wars in the Congo, Libya, Palestine, and Ukraine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Law Not War
Overview: Chronicles the adventurous life of Hungarian-born Jewish lawyer Benjamin Ferencz, who fled to the USA as a child and later became chief war crime prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-1949 and one of the founding members of the International Criminal Court, which entered into force in 2002.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz
Overview: A fascinating portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Watchers of the Sky
Overview: Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-20
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We Shall Not Die Now
Overview: A chronicle of the Holocaust, told by the resilient survivors who lived through it.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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The Anatomy of Evil
Overview: A Danish film essay about human evil and the motivations of mass murderers in war situations. A number of executioners divulge their bloody tales.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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La justice allemande face aux criminels nazis
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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