Meet Trisha Posner

I am London born and raised, but have spent over half my life in the United States. Currently, I am the Executive Director of Antisemitism Watch, a non-partisan, nonprofit I cofounded, with the goal of calling out anti-Jewish hatred on both the right and left. Zionist is not a dirty word for me, it is what I am.

Additionally, I am an activist for women's rights. In the Wall Street Journal in 2022, I wrote, "When Did 'Woman' Become a Dirty Word?," about the movement to degender medical terms and erase women in response to a tiny number of trans activists.

For thirty-five years I worked on 13 books of investigative nonfiction with my husband, bestselling author, Gerald Posner, I conduct every interview with him, sift through thousands of original documents in government and private archives, and work on early manuscript drafts. As a St. Petersburg Times profile noted: "Trisha Posner works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit."

In the late 1990s, I launched my solo writing career with a monthly column in Be Healthy, a New York based subscription magazine. In 2000, Random House/Villard published my memoir - This is Not Your Mother’s Menopause - casting doubts on the efficacy of universally prescribed HRT and presented my regimen for passing through menopause naturally. In 2003, a landmark medical study, the Women's Health Initiative, confirmed the alarming health risks I had addressed in my book. Villard published an updated paperback, No Hormones, No Fear.

For several years I wrote two columns for Miami's Ocean Drive magazine, one about health and fitness and the other titled "Cultural Chatter," everything from local politics to battles over historic preservation to a much cited profiles of magazine editor Tina Brown and real estate developer Jorge Perez. I have also written for The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast, as well as having discussed my reporting, among others places, on NBC's TODAY, MSNBC, and FOX.

My latest book is The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story (2017). It is the little known story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp. It is the first nonfiction biography of Capesius, a story that Damien Lewis, the acclaimed author of The Nazi Hunters, said was, "Shocking. Revelatory. Compelling. A truly authentic and riveting read. A milestone in WWII and Holocaust history."

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is also the inspiring tale of how a single camp survivor and Germany's first postwar Jewish judge hunted Capesius to bring him to some semblance of justice twenty years after the end of the war. The Pharmacist of Auschwitz reached #6 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and has been translated into 16 languages, a bestseller in half a dozen countries.

Activism

Trisha monitors the rise in antisemitism worldwide

In My Spare Time

Before turning to journalism, I was in fashion and music for twenty years.  When I am not working researching or writing, I relax by delving into mixed media art.  Since moving to Miami in 2005, my latest series is what I call Pop Digital Art, the digital remastering of photographs and images. Currently I'm in a self-described “Neon Period.”