Bernice Lerner News Today

We have become injured by the suffering of Jews in the Holocaust. The sheer number of those who were murdered makes us numb.

“We keep speaking on never again,” says Sonoma State Prof. Diane Parness. “It seems that every few years, a new genocide or potential genocide erupts.”

It has been 77 years since World War II ended, yet the world will never forget the six million Jews and countless other victims who were murdered

The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

February 2 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free Part of Sonoma State University’s annual public series, Tuesdays through May 11. “All the Horrors of War” author Bernice Lerner gives a talk titled “The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.” Free. To register, send your name and lecture choice to alliance@sonoma.edu by 12 p.m. two days before lecture.Event Website

When you dont have a menorah ...   December 18, 2020 (JNS) -So you dont have a menorah. And you dont have access to supplies that would enable you to create a reasonable facsimile of one. This was the position my mother, Rachel, was in when she was 15 years old. A great miracle had occurred four months earlier - Rachel had been selected to leave Auschwitz for a slave labor camp. After two-and-a-half months in the shadows of the gas chambers and crematoria, she was sent to Christianstadt, a Fr...