"His memory is the last link between murder and justice."
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
Mel Mermelstein

William Cox

Jane Mermelstein

Richard Fusilier

Bernie Mermelstein

Edie Mermelstein

Kenny Mermelstein

Elsie Smolena

Rabbi Hier

Lewis Brandon

Dan Greenspan

Young Mel

Willy

Postman Jack
Schorr