Reference Type: Aggregated database
Author: United States Holocauts Memorial Museum
Year: 1994
Title: Time Coded Notes for Oral history interview with BENJAMIN (BERYL) FERENCZ
Type of Work: Interview (video)
Keywords: Jewish Minority, History
Abstract: Ben was born in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania in Romania. When he was an infant, his family moved to the United States. Ben attended Harvard University, where he studied criminal law. Ben graduated from Harvard University Law School in 1943. He joined a U.S. anti-aircraft artillery battalion that was training in preparation for an Allied invasion of western Europe. At the end of World War II in Europe, Ben was transferred to the war crimes investigation branch of the U.S. Army. He was charged with gathering evidence against and apprehending alleged Nazi war criminals. He ultimately became chief U.S. prosecutor in The Einsatzgruppen Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?MediaId=4955
Name of Database: Holocaust Encyclopedia - USHMM
Database Provider: United States Holocauts Memorial Museum
Language: English