Ben Ferencz, the youngest person to prosecute Nazi war crimes at the Nuremberg trials, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) presented ...

Western Wyoming Community College (Western) student Presley Frink was awarded one of the highest honors given to young people ...

U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel joined the family of Benjamin Berell Ferencz, bipartisan House leaders, Holocaust survivors and ...

Congress on Tuesday posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest honors bestowed on civilians, to U.S. Army veteran Benjamin Ferencz for his work in investigating and ...

Irene Sprague grew up working for her family farm near Tappen. She was just 16 when she left her home for Bremerton, ...

Ben Ferencz was just 27 with no previous trial experience when he became chief prosecutor in one of the most significant ...

If only he had lived to see it: The U.S. Congress honored Benjamin Berell Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials, with a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, its highest ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in honor of Benjamin Ferencz, at the Capitol, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Washington.

Speaker Johnson delivered remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance in the U.S. Capitol. During the ceremony, Johnson presented the ...

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