Molly Applebaum was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1930. After the war, she spent three years in displaced persons camps in Europe before immigrating to Canada as a war orphan. Buried Words is the first English translation of the diary Molly wrote in Polish from 1942–1944 while hidden on a farm in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland. Molly Applebaum lives in Toronto.