Sala’s Gift: A True Tale of Strength, Friendship and Love
Single Session Class | Registration closed 9/10/2025
Dr. Ann Kirschner’s mother, Sala, kept a secret for close to 50 years: she had been a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. After surviving the War and later discovering that only she and two sisters out of an extended family of 50 survived the internment camp horrors of WWII, she married and moved to the U.S. It was only on the eve of heart surgery that she shared with Ann more than 350 letters, photographs and a diary that she had kept hidden through the Nazi labor camps and her life in New York State as a wife and mother. This is a remarkable story of survival, friendship and love.
Ann Kirschner
Ann Kirschner, Ph.D., is a strategic adviser in education, tech and digital media. She is the Dean Emerita of the CUNY Macaulay Honors College, created the Women in Technology in New York (WITNY) and served as Interim President of Hunter College. As a tech innovator, she developed NFL.com and NFL Sunday Ticket. She has been a trustee at Princeton, serves as a senior advisor to the President of Arizona State University, a director of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, NYC First and the Board of Movado Group among other advisory positions. She is the author of Sala’s Gift (2006) and Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp (2013). She received her PhD, English from Princeton University, MA in English from the University of Virginia and a BA in English and Piano from University at Buffalo.