Author to Hold Book Signing at Silverado Senior Living

During the height of World War II, Mollie Weinstein, a young medical transcriber turned Women’s Army Corps (WAC) cadet, documented her experiences in nearly 350 letters, photos and newspaper clippings sent to her family in the United States. 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 of Northbrook, began working with her mother on memoirs of her World War II 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, of Vernon Hills, hopes to attend the event. Silverado resident and Purple Heart recipient Stanley Skladzien, a Marine who was wounded on Guam in World War II, will also be on hand for the signing.

“We are quite honored to be able to host this special mother/daughter event to tell a story that is so appropriate for Veterans Day,” says Silverado Lake Zurich Administrator Pam Preston Bradley, M.S. “This will be a very insightful look into our wartime past and also a wonderful tribute of remembrance and thanks.”

The book signing will be held Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Silverado Senior Living – Lake Zurich, 555 America Court; GPS address: 970 S. Old Rand Road, Lake Zurich. The event is free and open to the public, with refreshments and tours of the community provided. RSVP to Silverado Senior Living – Lake Zurich at (224) 286-1751. Silverado Senior Living – Lake Zurich provides assisted living care for people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases that impair memory.

Author Shaffer is also the current editor of the Midwest Writers Association newsletter. Mollie’s War is published by McFarland & Company, Inc.

Silverado Senior Living, based in Irvine, Calif., operates memory care communities in Illinois, California, Texas, Arizona and Utah. It also offers home care, care management, and hospice care through its Silverado At Home and Silverado Hospice service lines, for a total of 34 operating locations. Silverado Senior Living’s website is www.SilveradoSenior.com.

— This information was provided by Scott McCaskey on behalf of Silverado Senior Living.