Biography:
\nJeanne tte Grunhaus de Gelman is a Venezuelan professor\, researcher\, and writer . She was born in Szczecin\, Poland in 1946\, to Polish Holocaust survivor s who came from Wlodawa. Her family emigrated to Venezuela\, settling in M aracaibo. Gelman received her undergraduate degree in French from Wellesle y College. In 1970\, she went on to receive an MA in Spanish Literature fr om New York University via their extension program in Madrid and in 1976 w as awarded her MA in the teaching of French from the Université\; de Paris III. She was a professor of French Language and Literature at the U niversidad del Zulia in Maracaibo from 1971 to 1996.
\nIn 2013 she m oved to Miami\, Florida with a purpose in mind. As Second-Generation Holoc aust Survivor\, her parents' trauma was always present in her life and she felt the need to understand what happened to the family she never had. Fr om 2013 to 2018 she was accepted as a Research Scholar at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton\, focusing on Holocaust studies.
\nAs a re sult\, she wrote On Sunny Days We Sang that was first published in Spanish in 2018 under the title En los dí\;as claros cantá\;bamos. It is the author's first full length work\, telling the story of her parents ' survival in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
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