Elinor Zalmona-Bollag, born in Israel as a granddaughter of immigrants from Poland.

The parents, sisters and brothers of her grandmother were killed by the Nazis in the forest near Konin, Poland, together with the majority of the town’s Jewish community. Graduated from the departments of anthropology and theater studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, certified as qualified expressive therapist specialized in psychodrama. Elinor has worked especially with children and parents in the private and public sectors and as group’s facilitator in clinical, social and educational context. She is the mother of four girls and lives together with her family in Berlin.