Anda Meisels Rosen was born in Sambor, Poland in 1932. She was seven years old when WWII began, and was twelve when she was liberated from the Nazis. After surviving the Holocaust, she immigrated to the United States in 1951. In 1958 she earned her Masters degree in Physics at USC, worked in research and taught Physics. She has five sons and seventeen grandchildren, and wrote this memoir when living in a cabin in the Los Padres National Forrest.