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Bernice Lerner

Bernice Lerner

Both Kristallnacht and the bombarding of Israel with rockets belong on the eons-long timeline of vicious anti-Semitic actions.
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.
Hanukkah 1944 was a bright interlude in the darkest of times.
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.