Book signing slated

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During the height of World War II, Mollie Weinstein, a young medical transcriber turned Women’s Army Corps cadet, documented her experiences in nearly 350 letters, photos and newspaper clippings sent to her family in the U.S. Weinstein was a technical sergeant and transcriber in medical intelligence, which determined the logistics, resources and facilities available near battlefields. She was in Normandy not long after D-Day and in Paris after its liberation. The correspondence revealed life for a Jewish-American woman serving and traveling through Germany, England and France, detailing the fear, romance, empowerment and repression of that era.

In 2008, Weinstein’s daughter, author Cyndee Schaffer, began working with her mother on memoirs of those experiences. Schaffer will share excerpts of “Mollie’s War” at a Veterans Day book signing and talk at Silverado Senior Living–Lake Zurich. Her 95-year-old mother hopes to attend. Silverado resident and Purple Heart Recipient Stanley Skladzien, a U.S. Marine who was wounded on Guam in WWII, will also be on hand.

The book signing will be held from 10:30 a.m. until noon Friday at Silverado Senior Living–Lake Zurich, 555 America Court, Lake Zurich. The event is free and open to the public.

R.S.V.P. to Silverado Senior Living–Lake Zurich at (224) 286-1751.