The last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, Benjamin Ferencz, said he felt devastated when he learnt Putin's forces had blasted the mass grave of its 33,771 largely Jewish victims on Tuesday
Benjamin Ferencz will turn 102 next week, but the strength of anger in his voice is that of a far younger man.
Events in Ukraine have propelled him back, made him tragically aware he’s lived long enough to see the threat of history repeating itself, despite everything Nuremberg stood for and enforced.
Two of the 22 Nazis he prosecuted then, high-ranking members of the Einsatzgruppen, Nazi extermination squads responsible for the deaths of around two million, were architects of the massacre of Babyi Yar in Kyiv in September 1941.
When he learnt Putin ’s forces had blasted the mass grave of its 33,771 largely Jewish victims on Tuesday, he was crushed.
However, hearing the International Criminal Court (ICC) announce this week it was already sending war crimes investigators into Ukraine, that it would hold Russian perpetrators at the highest level to account for any war crimes committed, has given him cause for renewed hope.
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“I want to see Putin behind bars, it is possible.”
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