Author: Susie Davidson
Title: I Refused to Die: Stories of Boston-Area Holocaust Survivors and Soldiers who Liberated the Concentration Camps of World War II
Bio: Now available: One-Hour documentary ("The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy") based on this book. See SusieD.com for details.  
Susie Davidson has written regularly for the Jewish Advocate and the
weekly Tabs since 2000. She has contributed to the Boston Sunday Globe, the Boston Herald (op-ed, April 18, 2009) and the
Forward, and is a poet with over 150 publications to date. She has authored
"I Refused to Die: Stories of Boston-Area Holocaust Survivors and Soldiers
who Liberated the Concentration Camps of World War II (2005)," "Jewish
Life in Postwar Germany: Our Ten-Day Seminar (2007)," and edited and
produced "In Gratitude and Hope: Remarks of German Consul General Wolfgang
K. Vorwerk (2008),” which chronicles the remarkable, post-war relationship
Vorwerk established with Boston’s Holocaust survivor community.
Davidson is a co-coordinator of the Boston chapter of COEJL, the Coalition on
the Environment and Jewish Life (www.BostonCOEJL.org), and spearheaded an
ongoing drive to green all Mass. state synagogues (23 have pledged to date). She
is also a board member of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow.