Evelyn Joseph Grossman was raised in Trenton, New Jersey, by parents who couldn’t separate themselves from their German past and German accents. She grew up in home celebrating Jewish holidays, a connection she continues today as an active member of  The Jewish Center in Princeton.  She earned a bachelor’s degree from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and a master’s degree from Fordham University. In her professional life, she worked as a financial analyst in the field of commercial debt obligations. In retirement, she has focused on writing her parents’ story, honoring the rescuers as Righteous Among the Nations, doing volunteer work in social service programs in Trenton, going on bike rides with her husband, Lenny, and taking trips to California to visit her grandkids.