Having grown up in the 50s, in a community populated by many Holocaust Survivors, the mission of published author & Holocaust educator, Joanne D. Gilbert, is to show that the Jews did not go "silently like sheep to the slaughter."
In the 1940s a little Polish Jewish girl lives in the forest with combat partisans, defies the Nazis, then in the 1950s, defies Mean Girls in Brooklyn, before becoming a wife, mom, grandma, noted scientist, professor, and artist!