Romanian-born Benjamin Ferenc, the last surviving prosecutor in Germany’s Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted Nazi war criminals after World War II and a longtime apostle of international criminal law, died Friday at the age of 103, NBC News reported. said Reuters, citing his son.

He was just 27 when he was a prosecutor in 1947 at Nuremberg, where accused Nazis, including Hermann Goering, were tried for crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust, the genocide in which six million Jews and millions of other people were systematically killed. . Benjamin Ferentz, a Harvard-educated lawyer, secured the conviction of many of the German officers who ran the roving death squads during the war.

Ferenc then spent decades advocating for the creation of an international criminal court, a goal achieved through the creation of an international tribunal in The Hague, Holland.

Ferenc was also a major donor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, founded in Washington.

The circumstances of his death have not been disclosed. The New York Times reported that Ferentz died at a nursing home in Boynton Beach, Florida. (News.ro)