Anna Salton Eisen is the author of The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir, The Twentieth Anniversary Edition (A National Jewish Book Awards Finalist in 2022) and Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust. She is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors and executive producer of the documentary film In My Father’s Words based on both of her books. Her writing has been published in The Jerusalem Post and The Forward, among other publications. As the founder of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, site of the antisemitic synagogue hostage crisis in January 2022, Anna has been featured in numerous major news outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.
Aaron Eisen is a third-generation Jewish writer, the son of Anna Salton Eisen. In addition to co-authoring Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, he is the producer of the documentary film In My Father’s Words. Besides having written for The Jerusalem Post, he is the author of the syndicated blog, “Dark Renaissance: My Holocaust Education.”