RCC Professor Co-Authors Children's Book on Holocaust Survivor

Carol Bierman, a Rockland Community College adjunct faculty member, has co-authored the children's book "The Girl Who Survived," which is due to be released by Scholastic Books in August.

"The Girl Who Survived" is co-authored with Bronia Brandman, one of the youngest Holocaust survivors of the Auschwitz death camp. Brandman was a speaker at RCC during last April's Holocaust Commemoration week, where she told how she risked her life trading goods on the black market in exchange for food for her family.

She was eventually captured along with her sisters and sent to Auschwitz where a nurse, who was also an inmate, helped her survive.

Bierman, of Wesley Hills, is also the author of the children's book, "Journey to Ellis Island: How my Father Came to America," published by Hyperion/Madison Press Books (hard cover) and then later by Scholastic (soft cover). 

She teaches two courses, History of the Holocaust and English Skills, at RCC.