The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

Bernice Lerner
Author, All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

Via Zoom
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dr. Bernice Lerner discusses the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen and her book All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Sylvia G. Sucher Memorial Lecture
Underwritten by Arline Thomas

On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen having been deported with her family from Sighet, Transylvania, in May of 1944. In All the Horrors of War, Lerner combines scholarly research with narrative storytelling to follow both Hughes and Genuth as they move across Europe toward Bergen-Belsen in the final, brutal year of World War II.

Lerner earned a bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University, a master’s from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a doctorate from Boston University. She is a Senior Scholar at the Center for Character and Social Responsibility in Cambridge, MA.