By all rights, Trisha could have turned to drugs or alcohol.  She grew up in a time when it was not pleasant to be Jewish.  She survived bullying and religious discrimination.  So at a young age, she got tough.  When her husband - Gerald Posner - was researching his book on Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death in the Holocaust), she learned of the part that a pharmacist played in the horrors of the Holocaust.  Her book - The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is a national bestseller.