For Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
“Readers interested in history will appreciate ‘Pillar of Salt’ for its insights into Jewish life and experience through a devastatingly tragic moment in history.”
— The Christian Chronicle
“[A] moving account…Pillar of Salt is a well-written emotive memoir, a journey of remembrance.”
— The Jerusalem Post (Review)
“Daughter of Holocaust survivors shines light on family’s dark secrets”
— The Jerusalem Post (Opinion)
“The narrative comes to life as Eisen’s father transforms from never speaking of the Holocaust, to making it his life’s work…the relationship between Eisen and her father becomes the emotional core of the book.”
— Tablet Magazine
“As we learn from Pillar of Salt, Salton Eisen’s affecting memoir, there is an abyss yawning at the heart…with its clear, unadorned recounting of a family’s pain, and of the echoes of the Shoah that continue down through generations, Pillar of Salt stands alone as a firsthand account.”
— Jewish Book Council
“Anna Salton Eisen’s important exploration of her Holocaust heritage is about building community, building connection, through history, through your family, through your story.”
—Deb Liu, CEO, Ancestry.com
For The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
“George Salton’s chronicle stands on a pinnacle as one of the most moving and best written memoirs of the Holocaust.”— Judges’ Remarks, National Jewish Book Awards Finalist, Jewish Book Council
“This is the story about the unexpected blessings of remembering, even when the memories seem too painful to bear.”
— CNN
“A powerful, searing recollection of the past, telling George Salton’s story with a fierce integrity that is both descriptive and introspective.”
— Michael Berenbaum, former project director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“This is a book to be read and passed down to our children to read.”
— Miles Lerman, Holocaust Survivor and a Founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“To safeguard the memory of the Shoah from being distorted, abused, trivialized and undermined by blatant lies, memory must time and time again mobilize its collected arsenal of witnesses and documents…The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir…manages to do just that.”
— Göran Rosenberg, author of A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, Winner of theAugust Prize (Swedish Literary Prizefor the Best Book of the Year)
“This memoir is among the best I have read…a must read that belongs in most libraries [for] high school to adult readers.”
— Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter