Texas HRW Virtual Webinar with Anna Salton Eisen

Anna Salton Eisen is the author of Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust and, with her Holocaust survivor father George Salton, the co-author of The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir. Both books are the basis of the forthcoming documentary film, In My Father’s Words, which Anna is producing. She was also a founding member and the first president of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, site of the antisemitic hostage crisis in January 2022.

Anna has conducted extensive research into the Holocaust and spoken on that topic to school and community groups. She served as a docent for the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies (now the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum) and conducted Holocaust survivor interviews for the USC Shoah Foundation. She is an Ambassador to #everynamecounts, a digital initiative of the Arolsen Archives, the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution. A licensed social worker, Anna formerly practiced as a therapist, specializing in mental health and trauma.

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