Selected articles
“What Barbie Meant to My Mother, a Holocaust Survivor” (Kveller, November 3, 2023)
“How Anne Frank Reminds Me of My Holocaust Survivor Mother” (Kveller, August 4, 2022) republished as “Anne Frank’s Next Diary Entries” (History News Network, September 26, 2022)
“Our Mothers, Our Books” (Guest post on Magdalena Ball’s Book Musings, April 16, 2022)
“Glyn Hughes: The British Officer Who Liberated Bergen-Belsen” (HistoryHit, February 22, 2022)
“A Ten Year Old’s Witness to the Liberation of Auschwitz” (History News Network, January 23, 2022)
“What I Wish I Had Asked” (The Times of Israel, The Blogs, January 18, 2022)
“Who Was Glyn Hughes?” (Our Voice, Irgun Sherit Hapleta, Bergen-Belsen Israel, December 2021, p. 22)
“Pretexts for Murderous Action: Then and Now” (Jewish News Syndicate, November 5, 2021; Daily Advent)
“Eighty Years Ago: Hitler’s First Large-Scale Mass Murder” (Jewish News Syndicate, August 17, 2021)
“Educating Teen Holocaust Survivors Holds Lessons for Teaching After Trauma” (History News Network, August 2021)
“Lessons From My Father, a Former Slave Laborer” (The Times of Israel, The Blogs “featured post,” June 12, 2021)
“My Mother’s Three Seders” (Moment Magazine, March 23, 2021)
“Remembering Passover in Extraordinary Times” (Boston Herald, March 17, 2021)
“When you don’t have a menorah...” (Jewish News Syndicate, December 8, 2020) “Hanukkah 1944 was a bright interlude in the darkest of times” (Jewish Journal, December 10, 2020, p. 7)
“The Trial Before Nuremberg” (Jewish News Syndicate, September 2, 2020; Jewish Journal, September 10, 2020; JewishBoston.com, September 16, 2020; Martyrdom and Resistance [American Society for Yad Vashem], Nov./Dec. 2020)
“Following My Mother’s Footsteps through Romania” (“The Scribe,” The Forward, August 8, 2020)
“Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust: A Review of Recommendations by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” in Holocaust Education in the Migration Society Bildung und Erziehung, Jg. 73, Heft 3 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, July/August 2020)
“From Two Vantage Points: The Horrors of War” (National Review Online, July 6, 2020)
“Human Integrity,” a review of The Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism, by Michael Aeschliman (Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, July/August 2020)
“Social Distancing Must Continue to Save Doctors from Excruciating Choices” (The Washington Post, “Made By History,” April 2020)
“A British nurse told my mother she was lucky to be alive: She didn’t feel lucky” (The Jewish Chronicle, London, April 2020)
“Walking in Her Footsteps” (The Jewish Advocate, April 2020)
“Before the War’s End: A British Officer, a Jewish Girl, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen” (Jewish News Syndicate, March 2020)
“Why Holocaust Fiction?” (History News Network, March 2020)
“Bergen-Belsen Through the Eyes of its Liberator” (National Review, April 2015)
“Seventy Years Later, Recalling the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen” (The Jewish Advocate/Jewish News Syndicate, April 2015)
“Small Sacrifices: Teaching the Depth and Breadth of Citizenship” (Education Week, August 2008)
“Ethics in the Eye of the Beholder” (Teachers College Record)
“Why Teach Biography?” (Education Week, March 2005)
“Timeless Wisdom in an Ancient Text” (CHARACTER, 3-4)
“Visas for Life: Moral Courage in the Holocaust” (with Karen E. Bohlin, CHARACTER, 3, 6)
The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors’ Lives
The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors’ Lives may be purchased at: Barnes and Noble or Amazon or University of Notre Dame Press.
The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors’ Lives vividly recounts the stories of seven Holocaust survivors who overcame many obstacles to earn advanced degrees and become college and university professors. As Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe from 1939-1945, they witnessed and endured terror and torture. After the war they pursued academic subjects that increased their understanding of the world. Their inspirational accounts demonstrate that it is possible to overcome the worst of circumstances.
Reviews
“Bernice Lerner’s intelligent and perceptive book delves into the lives of survivors, and explores their anguish as well as their hope. Readers will find in it elements that may bring them closer to ineffable experiences.” —Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
As a child psychiatrist, I was completely immersed in every page of this well written and compelling manuscript, which poses enormous questions about survival and meaning—how the young endure (and even prevail) under the most awful of circumstances. . . . This book will be regarded, too, as a milestone in the history of documentary work—storytelling (and listening) put on record carefully, movingly: the triumph of honorable intelligence, as it grew and grew in lives once threatened by murderous malevolence.” — Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize Winner
“. . . . One reads [Lerner’s] book with anguish and with joy, with tears and with laughter, and one only catches a glimpse of what the world lost in the murder of more than one million children. . . “ — Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know
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.
Book Chapters/Papers:
“Compassion in Dialogue,” in Peacebuilding Through Dialogue; “Justice,” “Benevolence,” and “Gratitude,” in Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West; “Educating for Character: Mandatory, Optional, or Inevitable?” in The Dimensions of Physical Education; “A Leap of the Moral Imagination: Entering Holocaust Stories,” in Holocaust Education in the 21st Century (Germany: University of Augsburg).
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