Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto

Leokadia Schmidt (1914-1984) was a Jewish wife and mother from Warsaw, Poland, where she and her husband ran a manufacturing business during WWII. Their family survived by making narrow escapes from Nazi camps and going into hiding. Leokadia and her family eventually moved to the US, where she lived until her death.

Rebecca Gibel, an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress, has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, and the Arden Theatre Company. Rebecca has narrated over fifty audiobooks and is facile in a wide variety of genres.