Pretexts for murderous action: Then and now Both Kristallnacht and the bombarding of Israel with rockets belong on the eons-long timeline of vicious anti-Semitic actions. Bernice Lerner Nov. 5, 2021
Eighty years ago: Hitler’s first large-scale mass murder Among the 23,600 Jews murdered in the Ukrainian city of Kamenets-Podolsk were my great-aunt Malcsi and my great-uncle Nachman, and their spouses—all in their 30s, and their children, all under the age of 8. Bernice Lerner Aug. 17, 2021
When you don’t have a menorah … Hanukkah 1944 was a bright interlude in the darkest of times. Bernice Lerner Dec. 8, 2020
The trial before Nuremberg By admitting evidence of atrocities committed by Germans against German or Axis nationals, it set a precedent for the series of trials to follow: No longer would “sovereign immunity” automatically shield war criminals. Bernice Lerner Sept. 2, 2020
