Karen Treiger lives in Seattle, Washington. She retired from her law practice in 2015 to research and write My Soul is Filled With Joy: A Holocaust Book. She graduated from New York University Law School (order of the Coif) in 1988, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Law Review. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1983. Her work experience ranges from a Legislative Assistant to Senator Slade Gorton (1983-1985), business law for a large Seattle law firm, and her most recent law practice of fourteen years with the boutique law firm of Thompson, Howle & Vaughn, where she practiced in the area of elder law. She is married to Shlomo Goldberg and they have four adult children and three children-in-law. She loves to water ski and snow ski and has run a sprint triathalon (swim, bike, run) for the past ten summers. She loves to read and listen to audio books. Treiger's Law Review Note, published in 1987 was entitled Preventing Patient Dumping: Sharpening the COBRA's Fangs. New York University Law Review 1987 Dec: 61(6) 1186-223. More recently she had the following articles published: The Jewish Press (Fewer than One in 10,000 Survived - August 17, 2018); Forward (Poland Must Reckon with How it Treated Jews During WWII; For Good and For Bad - August 9, 2018); and Jewish in Seattle Magazine (Sweet Revenge - August-September 2016). In the spring of 2016, Treiger received a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education. She in an accomplished speaker and has presented at many Continuing Legal Education Conferences and events in Seattle's Jewish community where she is an active volunteer. She is a member of the Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity's Speaker's Bureau.
"This book which started as a gift of love from the author to her
survivor parents-in-law, turns out to be a gift of seeing life anew
to every reader. It enables us - no, it compels us-to see our
everyday lives in a new dimension of appreciation, meaning and
purpose. I urge everyone to look deeply into this book and accept
its priceless gift of a new life."
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg is the President Emeritus, CLAL: The National
Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; chairman, the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council, 2000-2002.
"Karen has written a powerful and personal account of Sam and
Esther Goldberg. This book is a must read for those interested in
the greatest crime in the history of mankind."Chris Webb,
Author/Historian, Founder of the Holocaust Historical Society
"It is vital that this book--as well as other accounts of the
Holocaust-- be preserved and disseminated widely to future
generations to help prevent anything similar from ever happening
again."Marion Blumenthal Lazan, Holocaust Survivor and Co-Author
Four Perfect Pebbles
"We are haunted by the question of inexplicable evil. If you want
to be inspired in spite of the horrors one human being can do to
another human being, read this book." Rabbi Michael Schudrich,
Chief Rabbi of Poland"In Karen Treiger's important book she tells
the story of her in-laws. Their suitcases were filled with only
tragic and bitter memories. Yet, they had the courage to pick
themselves up by the bootstraps, wipe away the tears, turn despair
into hope, and rebuild Jewish life."Rabbi Marvin Hier, Founder and
Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center
"In capturing the storied lives of Sam and Esther Goldberg, Karen
Treiger confronts the darkness of war and brings readers into the
light, as we witness her grief transformed into gratitude,
self-understanding and yes, joy."Barbara Mackoff, Author, The Inner
Work of Leaders"Treiger's important book seamlessly connects past
and present and traces the arc of Polish Jewry- from Poland to hell
and somehow, despite the odds, back again to Poland." Jonathan
Ornstein, Executive Director, Jewish Community Center of Krakow"The
author's quest to preserve this legacy yields a portrait of a
multigenerational family with a passionate commitment to active and
transformative remembering." Katka Reszke, author, Return of the
Jew: Identity Narratives of the Third Post-Holocaust Generation of
Jews in Poland."Impeccably researched, well-crafted, and profoundly
felt, this is a tale of hope and promise that emerges from horror
and destruction, as well as one of the powers of the human
spirit."Steve Steinberg, Author and Baseball Historian, Urban
Shocker, Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
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