 She experienced chronic illnesses after her return from the field, but nevertheless completed publications and many lectures but did not survive to finish a book "The Human Career in Village India" which was to integrate and unify her many-sided studies of human character formation in the cultural/historical context of India.Gertrude Poznanski was born on May 3, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, the home of her mother, Sarah Auerbach.She was the youngest of sisters Mary and Helen, who both later emigrated to Israel.