Sarah Sil­ber­stein Swartz is a writer and edi­tor spe­cial­iz­ing in wom­en’s stud­ies and Holo­caust lit­er­a­ture. Her work has been pub­lished inter­na­tion­al­ly in the US, Cana­da, Ger­many, and Poland. Daugh­ter of Pol­ish Holo­caust sur­vivors, she was born in post-war Berlin, Ger­many, where she spent her pre-ado­les­cence. Research Asso­ciate at the Hadas­sah-Bran­deis Insti­tute, she lives in Boston with her wife and cat.