Barbara Gilford began as an educator and later maintained a clinical practice in psychotherapy for almost twenty-five years before writing Heart Songs, A Holocaust Memoir. Her MSW degree from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, formalized her lifelong quest to understand how people work out their lives. Trauma, loss and suffering in her clients engendered in her deep appreciation for the strength and resilience embedded in the human psyche and spirit.
The author contributed more than two hundred articles on dance to The New York Times, New Jersey Weekly section and won two awards for her journalism. Barbara is an accomplished presenter who has told her family’s story in high schools and colleges, at an off-off Broadway theatre in New York, in a synagogue and at a Jewish Community Center.
In addition to writing, Barbara reads and immerses herself in film, classical music, ballet and Broadway. She enjoys art museums, European travel and also her home in Morris County, New Jersey.
The author is available for book talks and presentations.
Readers can communicate with the author through her website at www.barbaragilford.com.
Heart Songs – A Holocaust Memoir
In Heart Songs - A Holocaust memoir, the author traverses the landscape of memory, love and loss and breathes new life into the stories of her grandmother, aunt and cousin, who perished in the camps, and her father, who escaped and became one of "The Ritchie Boys".
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Canzoni del Cuore
Quando i Nazzisti invasero la Cecoslovacchia nel marzo del 1939, la famiglia Buchsbaum scelse diverse strade per sfuggire alle brutalità naziste. Essere intelligenti non era abbastanza per sopravvivere alle SS; le scelte sbagliate potevano risultare fatali. Le loro storie vivono in Canzoni del Cuore - Memorie sull'Olocausto e nell’eredità d’amore e perdita dell’autrice, una sopravvissuta all’Olocausto di seconda generazione.
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