There is a very nice article in the Skokie Review about my speaking as part of a panel discussion at the Illinois Holocaust Museum on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in conjunction with the “Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War” exhibit.

http://skokie.suntimes.com/news/12523114-418/jewish-world-war-ii-vets-tell-of-battle-experiences.html

There is a wonderful article about my mother and “Mollie’s War” in today’s Northbrook Tower newspaper.    It begins on page 25.   “Northbrook resident’s book shares mother’s WWII story” http://www.northbrooktower.com/SitePage-28463.114133-Digital-Editions.html

There was a beautiful tribute to my mother in today’s Chicago Sun Times.   We were interviewed by Katies Drews from obituaries.com last week.  She saw my mother’s obituary about her WWII service as a WAC in the Chicago Tribune and it intrigued her.  http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/12072995-418/mollie-schaffer-95-veteran-of-wwii-womens-army-corps.html

If you could enjoy your own funeral, my mother would have loved hers. It was lovely, and everything she would have wanted, complete with eulogies by her daughter and granddaughter, escort by the Jewish War Veterans of Post 89, and full military funeral honors which included the playing of Taps, flag folding, and the presentation of the flag to her family.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3050291623709.2126090.1455800073&type=3&l=91f16737e9

This has been a very trying week for all of us.  We miss Mom so very much.
This morning when I opened my email, I found a link to an interview I did a few weeks ago about “Mollie’s War”, from inspiration to publication, with Morgen Bailey on her writing blog.    http://wp.me/p18Ztn-2od

It is with a heavy heart that I have to write that my mother, Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, passed away  peacefully on Saturday night after a long illness.   She was a member of the greatest generation and served her country as a WAC stationed in Europe during WWII.   We are saddened and she will be missed very much by all who knew her. For more information about the funeral arrangements and condolences, please see:
http://www.chicagojewishfunerals.com/funeral-detail-page?case=DEF4F41C-20E8-4EA0-B3D8-0CF74FDD50F3

Please read a wonderful article from a friend, Dorothy Lipovenko in Montreal, that she wrote for the Montreal Gazette about the “passing of the torch” from generation to generation for hosting holiday events.   She mentioned my mother and me (and “Mollie’s War”) in the article. http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Taking+over+holiday+duties+daughter+reflects+family+traditions/6395556/story.html

It was just announced.    “Mollie’s War” won first place in biography/memoir at the 2012 Royal Dragonfly Book contest.    We  are very excited.
http://www.fivestarpublications.com/bookcontest/book-award-winners.html#2012rdbawin

My mother and dad’s (Mollie and Jack)  “love story” was carried yesterday in the Northbrook Patch for Valentines Day.
Read all about it at http://patch.com/A-qR1g
That’s their picture on their first date. The story is called “For Two Cents, I’d Marry You.”

I will be the featured author discussing “Mollie’s War” at the next Chicago Jewish Authors Literary series at Max and Benny’s restaurant in Northbrook on Monday, April 23 at 7 PM.   Please join us.   It is free to the public.