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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sophie Bates and Kendria Lafleur

Mississippi synagogue congregant shares story of 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing

US Mississippi Synagogue Fire - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. This weekend, at 75, she watched it burn again.

“It was horrifying and disbelieving to see it again,” Geiger Bonnheim said. “Does history change?”

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