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

Author: Bernice Lerner

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2020

Synopsis

On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, fifteen-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Transylvania, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then already endured Auschwitz, the Christianstadt labor camp, and a forced march through the Sudetenland. In All the Horrors of War, Bernice Lerner follows both Hughes and Genuth as they move across Europe toward Bergen-Belsen in the final, brutal year of World War II.

Drawing on a wealth of sources, including Hughes's papers, war diaries, oral histories, and interviews, this gripping volume combines scholarly research with narrative storytelling in describing the suffering of Nazi victims, the overwhelming presence of death at Bergen-Belsen, and characters who exemplify the human capacity for fortitude. Lerner, Rachel's daughter, has special insight into the torment her mother suffered. The first book to pair the story of a Holocaust victim with that of a liberator, All the Horrors of War compels listeners to consider the full, complex humanity of both.

About Bernice Lerner

Bernice Lerner, the daughter of Rachel Genuth, is a senior scholar at Boston University's Center for Character and Social Responsibility. She is the author of The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors' Lives and a coeditor of Happiness and Virtue beyond East and West: Toward a New Global Responsibility.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pam on April 11, 2020

The depth, breadth, and scope of Bernice Lerner’s All the Horrors of War are especially remarkable in the telling of two important stories in tremendous detail. Lerner provides the cold hard facts surrounding Dr. H. L. Glyn Hughs’ journey that ultimately takes him to the notorious Bergen-Belsen camp......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on April 28, 2021

On April 15, 1945, British doctor, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes arrived at Bergen-Belsen. While familiar with the horrors of war, nothing could prepare Brigadier Hughes for what he would see there. Among the sixty thousand living inmates, in the camp, was Rachel Genuth, a fifteen-year-old Jewess who......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 31, 2025

This is such a compelling and important book about the Holocaust. Yes, there are many out there, but this one includes a dual timeline of a young Czech Jewish girl who is sent to a number of concentration camps, ending up at Bergen-Belsen, along with the story of a British army doctor who ends up li......more

Goodreads review by Susann on April 23, 2022

Enlightening! Unlike many reviewers, I quite liked the parallel stories of the doctor and the young Jewish survivor of Belsen. I think Hughes' humanity, organizational skills, medical knowledge, and witness perspective added greatly to the story of Rachel and her fellow inmates' experience of the Hol......more

Goodreads review by Cari on April 17, 2022

Very poignant story. I’m not Jewish & am always so moved by their strength & will to keep going. Even more, her desire to heal & live a life with meaning. Cannot be easy. I was most interested in Hughes story & how medicine was carried out during the war. The details of that blew me away. I mean for......more

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