Rachela Walshaw was a teenage girl when the Nazis firestormed her Polish hometown, deported and murdered most of her large family and enslaved her in munitions factories for most of the war. She em...view moreRachela Walshaw was a teenage girl when the Nazis firestormed her Polish hometown, deported and murdered most of her large family and enslaved her in munitions factories for most of the war. She emigrated to the United States in 1949 with her husband and infant son. The 1991 publication of Ms. Walshaw’s memoirs led to several major book reviews, and dozens of author appearances and presentations. Ms. Walshaw has published poetry and essays on the Holocaust and other topicsview less