Caught as a young child in terror at what Hitler's Third Reich was doing to Jews and told by her father that she had to live for all the children who were dying, Elizabeth Socolow encountered a survivor of Auschwitz who taught her to love Torah and to know the stories of her Jewish forebears. Early on she understood that not live for the children massacred in Europe, but in her imagination she could "be" her Jewish ancestors. In this volume, the award-winning poet gives timeless voices to some of these women, who appear in the Bible.