Aged only 27, Benjamin Ferencz led the charge for the United States during the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947. Twenty-two leaders of these mobile extermination units, which followed the German advance in Eastern Europe , had been convicted after the exposure of the extent of their crimes. Relying on Nazi archives, Benjamin Ferencz had estimated at more than a million Jewish men, women and children, the number of victims of this “Holocaust by bullets“. Born in the Carpathian Mountains to Jewish parents and a refugee at the age of 10 months in the United States, he studied law at the prestigious Harvard University.
If my father could have made one final statement, I’m sure he would have said: law, not war.
