Amy Carney is an Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College, where she teaches classes on modern European history. She is the author of Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazis SS. Her current research is a microhistory of a German Jewish family and an Austrian Jewish (the Pisko) family, both of whom emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1938. She is also collaborating with Ernest and Risa Pisko’s grandson, Eric Corty, to co-author a cookbook based on Risa’s recipes.