"How Did I Get Here?” Speaker Branch President Ann Huber

 107 Ridgedale Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 

Speaker Branch President Ann Huber will discuss her memoir, Lost and Found, Surviving Displacement, Finding Love, Uncovering Secrets. She will talk about her journey from one country to another, learning new languages and adapting to different cultures, while struggling to figure out where she fits in. The book can be purchased at https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Surviving-Displacement-Uncovering/dp/0988354462 and copies are available thru the MAIN Library system.   

Born in war-torn Romania shortly after WWII, the author fled to Israel along with her family, and then they abruptly moved to Canada. She moved to the US at 19, another uprooting in her young life. When she meets the love of her life at a young age, she learns that his family’s history of displacement and survival during the Holocaust parallels her own. As she matures, has children, and her ambitions grow, the author finds an inner strength. Even a shocking family secret learned late in life that might have shattered another person’s worldview, only strengthens her resolve to remain true to herself. Her extraordinary life of dealing with losses and secrets, and finding love, is the subject of this moving memoir.

Speaker Information:

Ann & her husband are residents of Madison, having moved here 18 years ago after raising 3 daughters and 5 dogs in Randolph Township.  Ann is a retired Deputy Attorney General, following her trial work of Termination of Parental Rights trials and appeals. She is a graduate of Rutgers University (New Brunswick) and Rutgers Law School (Newark). Never happy to sit still, she has always been involved in volunteer work & politics, starting with the Red Cross & Leaders' Corps in High School, Pres. of Morristown Jewish Center Sisterhood, Pres. Randolph Chamber of Commerce and member of Rotary, then held elected office as Councilwoman and Mayor in Randolph.  Her memoir, Lost and Found, Surviving Displacement, Finding Love, Uncovering Secrets, is about her journey from one country to another, learning new languages and adapting to different cultures, while struggling to figure out where she fits in. She's been president of the AAUW Madison Area since June 2022. She thinks she fits in here pretty well.