The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday April 19th, 2023
Benjamin Ferencz, Champion of World Law, Leave a Strong Heritage on Which To Build. by Rene Wadlow
Benjamin Ferencz, champion of World Law and World Citizen, died on 7 April 2023 at the age of 103, leaving a strong heritage of action for world law. He was particularly active in the creation of the International Criminal Court located in The Hague.
He was born in March 1920 in what is now Romania, close to the frontiers of Hungary and Ukraine. In the troubled period after the end of the First World War, the parents of Ferencz who were Jewish decided to emigrate to New York with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They settled in New York City, and Ferencz changed his Yiddish name Berrel to Benjamin and studied in the New York school system. He did his undergraduate work at City College and then received a scholarship to Harvard Law School, a leading U.S. law school.
At the end of his law studies at Harvard, he was taken into the U.S. Army and in 1944; he was in Europe with the Army legal section, the Judge-Advocate General Corps. By conviction and interest, he began to collect information on the Nazi concentration camps. He was able to find photos, letters, and other material that he later was able to use as one of the prosecution team in the Nuremberg trials of Germans accused of war crimes.
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Starry Night #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The stars shone
Over the sea
And I sat on
A moonlit beach
And watched the waves
Gently lapping the shore,
And a night breeze
Bent the long grass.”
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AntySaurus Prick #64 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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