Ann Kirschner’s Favorite Reads

Ann Kirschner, university dean of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, is a strong and determined historian who finds inspiration from her subjects—and inspires us with their life stories. In her first of two biographies, so personal and poignant, Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story, she chronicled her mother’s incredible tale of survival as a slave for five years in seven Nazi work camps. Her most recent, just re-released in paperback, Lady at the O.K. Cor