https://www.bernicelerner.com/home daily 1.0 2023-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1569129193642-JPRYTYIAXBONQ7FWH4FI/image-asset.jpeg The liberation of Bergen-Belsen Rachel Genuth (1952) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1569218573311-BXO1AWDT0C7HRQHLC3Y3/ToMeetInHell.jpg The liberation of Bergen-Belsen The UK edition of All the Horrors of War is available at: Amberley Publishing and Waterstones and Amazon UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1577688624101-4AX64TPW69M4893ADIXB/GH%2Bin%2Bplus%2Bfours.jpg The liberation of Bergen-Belsen H. L. Glyn Hughes between the wars. Credit: Epsom College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/3e4db58c-cd5c-4d03-941c-f4d1d5553953/Steven+Shalowitz.jpg The liberation of Bergen-Belsen - Make it stand out Steven Shalowitz, Host and Executive Producer at The One Way Ticket Show; Interviewer for the Jewish National Fund-USA’s Reading Series. https://www.bernicelerner.com/the-author daily 0.75 2019-08-21 https://www.bernicelerner.com/the-protagonists-of-all-the-horrors-of-war daily 0.75 2019-08-21 https://www.bernicelerner.com/writings daily 0.75 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1566886442560-Q6AKRTR02Y84J1PPF580/Triumph+des+Geistes.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories The Triumph of Wounded Souls has been translated into German by Martha Friedenthal-Haase and Elisabeth Meilhammer. Der Triumph des Geistes may be purchased at: Wochenschau Verlag or Amazon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1567484168677-UIBB9XPXAYL75FQR6K86/PTD-book-list.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories - Peacebuilding Through Dialogue Bernice contributed a chapter titled “Compassion in Dialogue” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1567484187879-4DQUSWGJTGORHSY5VW7C/H+and+V.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories - Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West Bernice contributed chapters on “Justice,” “Benevolence,” and “Responsibility” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1567484200441-UC4OKYGZXL6PHDXMC2OL/The+Dimensions+of+Physical+Education.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories - The Dimensions of Physical Education Bernice contributed a chapter titled “Educating for Character: Mandatory, Optional, or Inevitable?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1568866843892-AGZWG8SHOMBMY0B7WY46/Holocaust+Education+in+the+21st+Century.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1566885676524-RWOD61JFR3E9Z01U0X1D/TTWS.jpg On virtue ethics and true Holocaust stories https://www.bernicelerner.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/7434e91e-412f-4192-a470-acc9fe0347d0/Sighet+memorial.jpg Author's talks on the Holocaust or Virtue Ethics - Make it stand out Memorial at the site of Sighet’s once largest synagogue (Romania, 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/ba346ab7-b3d5-4a37-959a-52157656261f/Ad+for+All+the+Horrors+of+War.png Author's talks on the Holocaust or Virtue Ethics - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/48c34b02-2310-4c5d-b975-4c03dc95419d/Picture1.jpg Author's talks on the Holocaust or Virtue Ethics “Coming back to life”: Teenaged survivors in a school in By-Kyrkby, Sweden. Rachel is first on the left in the back row. https://www.bernicelerner.com/events daily 0.75 2024-04-14 https://www.bernicelerner.com/the-author-1 daily 0.75 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571372956506-UH9L18AFGPKJWWC163YR/Lerner.+as+a+kid+copy+edited.jpeg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story Bernice grew up on Long Island, where her immigrant parents tried to adopt American ways of life. She is sorry they spent their hard-earned money on piano and ballet lessons, for which she had little aptitude. She loved to draw and to write and would copy the text of whatever was in front of her. She also loved to organize and lead activities. Here she is (standing) with neighborhood kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/60f494f3-c633-4a57-8007-98f28d7f565a/Picture1.jpg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story Photo credit: Eliezer Katzoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/ecc7a613-d026-4879-bfa9-85bfe68a9be9/bio-logo.jpg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story - Make it stand out Bernice is a proud member of Biographers International Organization and the Boston Biographers Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571373187103-D1RT543QJRQFPX7DXCGG/CAEC-banner1.jpg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story Bernice teaching a graduate seminar in Character and Ethics Education in the School of Education’s Ryan Library, Boston University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/17689042-b220-4a2e-b87b-811fce078f06/New+Maramaros+photo.jpg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/388e1760-c2a7-449e-aeff-3e605c01424f/279536618_10158343205670919_3487803633696481500_n.jpg A daughter of Holocaust Survivors tells her mother's story - Make it stand out Favorite Photos: Images by Markus Sorin, photographer of scenes in and around SIghet, Romania. https://www.bernicelerner.com/the-protagonists-of-all-the-horrors-of-war-1 daily 0.75 2023-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1618981428653-7T3F2S2VRI1RYKKO9WTF/Ruth%25252BMermelstein.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Rachel Ruth Mermelstein, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571718840230-W6KWQYQ7D1WUDM60F8F8/Glyn+Hughes+and+map.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Credit: Museum of Military Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1611990488133-F3K5QCUBD42KV9DL2EEC/image-asset.jpeg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor 1944. H. L. Glyn Hughes, second from left. Richard O'Connor, 8 Corps Commander, front row, right. At Worth Priory, West Sussex--a place of intelligence gathering and planning for the Normandy landing. Courtesy of the Abbott and Trustees of Worth Abbey/the Worth School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/f8e7b31c-f6a9-4d26-b9cd-b190b27efb3e/takingchancesFB.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor - Make it stand out Rachel Ruth’s testimony for the Arizona Jewish Historical Society is archived here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1574572664891-O1OK8T6AN5D2UK3PMSFB/Operating%2Broom%2Bpersonnel%2BSoderby%2BSjukhus%2B1947.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Rachel (second from left) with operating room personnel at Soderby Sjukhus (South Village Hospital), Sweden, 1947. (See Epilogue in All the Horrors of War for an unforgettable operating room scene.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571373612160-C7CCKKN56Y8Z6IKLQ5X3/GH+Yad+Vashem+file179_2%281%29.JPG Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor H. L. Glyn Hughes. Credit: Yad Vashem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571719906060-3MW6M7G8RXVPT6JCLDQS/Picture16.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Glyn Hughes. Credit: Epsom College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571553079550-HH9GB0JAGCDB0EHY8II9/Hohne_GH_03.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Glyn Hughes Hospital https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1574224673398-OC8A15AFB1ZEANWFC41U/Hughes+handwriting.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor “From the Army Angle,” a page from H. L. Glyn Hughes’s diary, January 1945. Among traits a graphologist might discern in the brigadier’s handwriting: creativity, practicality, generosity, humility, reserve, and integrity. And that he did not suffer fools gladly. Credit: Museum of Military Medicine, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1574572525421-3XUI70UQFNRCZVIJ9X1T/Practicing%2Bbridge%2B1.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Rachel (second from left) practicing for a bridge tournament, 1953. (Rachel and her partner won first place in a hundred-person tournament.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1582521187208-T91NAADJEHKJBJGA5C7F/Ruth+Mermelstein+at+Basketball+game+2.13.2020.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Ruth Mermelstein, honored at Hofstra Hillel’s Jewish Heritage Night basketball game (Hofstra vs. Charleston). (David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex), February 13, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1577683431562-FXIGPYHYMUC83J70CIB6/Our%2BLady%2Bof%2Bthe%2BMiraculous%2BMedal%2BChurch%252C%2BRidgewood%252C%2BQueens%2BPARISH.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Ruth with the pastor and students of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, Ridgewood, Queens, November 3, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1574573453119-7XIJVAT3L8376NEIIAPE/Hughes+and+Rosensaft.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Glyn Hughes and Josef Rosensaft, president of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen survivors (Israel, 1960s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1574573624391-LCDMRYUCRVQHY2TDZJ7B/Elisabeth%2C+MIke%2C+and+Rachel.jpg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Elisabeth and Mike Pelta (Rachel’s sister and brother-in-law) and Rachel, Sweden, 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5d97c41031d5000149d4ff/1571373643872-GX3R9OMA2M5VYK5DGGQL/185_230+Sign+for+Glyn+Hughes+hospital+ITEM+24223.jpeg Glyn Hughes, liberator of Bergen-Belsen and a Holocaust survivor Survivors who witnessed Glyn Hughes’s caring and compassion named the 13,000-bed hospital at Bergen-Belsen for him. 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