Wendee Gilliam

Age: 76

Summary: author of Heated Kitchen, an account detailing about her childhood experiences growing up near the Warsaw Ghetto for two years while her father was stationed in Germany during the Holocaust, in which the book became an inspiration for the 1988 TV movie The Slum Shepherd.

Cause of Death: Airplane accident

Born: June 9, 1930

Died: January 25, 2007

Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina