Director of Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis’ fears world on precipice of World War III “I couldn’t stop thinking about it as a young man,” says Joe Berlinger of World War II and the Holocaust. “Had I been born back then, I clearly would have been murdered. I couldn’t believe that people could do that to each other.” Alan Zeitlin June 19, 2024
Holocaust survivor and Nuremberg translator Ruth Lansing dies at 105 Following World War II, she returned to occupied Germany and became a civilian employee for the U.S. Army, working as a translator. April 19, 2024
The world should be on trial in Jerusalem Everyone is guilty and everyone should be held responsible. Phyllis Chesler March 19, 2024
Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film It will feature the Oscar award-winning actor in a psychological contest with psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, played by Oscar-winner Rami Malek, evaluating the Nazi propagandist’s fitness for trial. Jan. 10, 2024
After Hamas rampage, Israeli lawmaker submits death-penalty bill Knesset member Amit Halevi “copied—with necessary adjustment—the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law.” Oct. 16, 2023
Last surviving Nuremberg trial prosecutor dies at 103 A Harvard-educated New York lawyer, Benjamin (“Ben”) Ferencz was only 27 when he secured the convictions of 22 Nazi officers. April 9, 2023
Stanford University digitizes thousands of pages of Nuremberg trial documents Funds from Taube Philanthropies makes the archive free to the public. March 30, 2023
Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz receives Congressional Gold Medal U.S. Rep Lois Frankel tells JNS that “The message that antisemitism and hatred is wrong, and that the Holocaust was real, is an important message.” Mike Wagenheim Jan. 22, 2023
Bipartisan bill awards Congressional Gold Medal to last living Nuremberg prosecutor The spending package for the fiscal year 2023 includes the highest congressional honor bestowed to Ben Ferencz for his advocacy of human rights and justice. Dec. 22, 2022