Hungarian Alaine Polcz was born in 1922 in the Transylvanian city of Kolozsvár (today Romania) and died in 2007 in Budapest. She was a young wife during the Second World War (in which she suffered the cruelty of the invaders of her country), then she enrolled in university and pursued a degree in psychology. He wrote books of all kinds, including two volumes of terminally ill children's confessions and ordinary people's memories of death and other losses. Her most relevant book, A Woman at the Front, was originally published in 1991 and has since been translated into numerous languages.