Ann will be talking about SALA’S GIFT and its themes of survival and identity, mother and daughters, and the persistence of life and love, friendship and laugher, amid the most extraordinary circumstances.

• What it was like for Ann to discover her mother as a beautiful, brave teenager and how it changed their relationship

• How Sala was able to survive, receive and preserve the letters

• The day-to-day moments of hope, despair, and details of wartime Poland

• What happened to the rest of Sala’s family and why Sala kept the letters a secret for so many years

• Sala’s close friendship with Ala Gertner, who was hanged publicly at Auschwitz in the final days of the war for helping to organize the camp’s only armed uprising

• Why the letters, diary, photographs, and keepsakes are such a valuable part of survivor history

• What the letters reveal about the elaborate system of Nazi slave labor camps

SALA AND ANN AT EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK

JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, SALA, granddaughter Caroline Weinberg. Photo © Rick Reinhard 2007