Merle R. Saferstein was the director of educational outreach at the Documentation and Education Center, where she worked closely with hundreds of Holocaust survivors for twenty-six years. After retirement, she developed a course titled Living and Leaving Your Legacy and currently teaches and speaks to audiences locally, nationally, and internationally about leaving a meaningful legacy. Merle is a pioneer in legacy journaling. For fourteen years, she culled through her 359 journals, taking excerpts from approximately seventy topics. From these excerpts, she created Living and Leaving My Legacy, Vols. l and ll. She is also the author of the recently published Wisdom of the Century.
