Overview
- Ferencz’s family received the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday during the Holocaust Museum’s Days of Remembrance, with Holocaust survivors in attendance.
- Ferencz, a U.S. Army veteran and the youngest Nuremberg prosecutor, led the Einsatzgruppen case that convicted 22 members of Nazi killing squads.
- Congressional leaders warned about Holocaust denial, with Speaker Mike Johnson citing campus rhetoric that excuses or defends antisemitic slogans.
- Speakers described Ferencz’s first-hand investigations at camps like Buchenwald and his discovery of meticulous Nazi records that documented more than one million murders.
- Congress authorized the honor in 2022, and lawmakers highlighted his push for reparations and for building international justice, captured in his motto “law, not war.”