Author Bio
Barbara Gilford began as an educator and later maintained a clinical
practice in psychotherapy for almost twenty-five years before writing Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir. Her MSW degree from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, formalized her lifelong quest to understand how people work out their lives. Trauma, loss and suffering in her clients engendered in her deep appreciation for the strength and resilience embedded in the human psyche and spirit.
The author contributed more than two hundred articles on dance to The New York Times, New Jersey Weekly section and won two awards for her journalism.
Barbara is an accomplished presenter who has told her family’s story in high schools, colleges, at an off-off Broadway theatre in New York, in synagogues, and for community organizations.
In addition to writing, Barbara reads and immerses herself in film, classical music, ballet and Broadway. She enjoys art museums, European travel and also her home in Morris County, New Jersey.