Benjamin Ferencz, Last of the Nuremberg Prosecutors, Dies at 103

Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the trials at Nuremberg that held Nazi death-squad leaders accountable for killing more than 1 million people in Eastern Europe during World War II, has died. He was 103.

He died on April 7 in Boynton Beach, Florida, the Associated Press reported, citing St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials.

Benjamin Ferencz in 2015.

Photographer: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

Ferencz “was relentless in his commitment to memory, history and justice,” Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, said in a statement.

At 27, the Romanian-born, New York-raised Ferencz ...