My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation

After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm's parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together...
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Author: Joanie Holzer Schirm
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My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation by Schirm, Joanie Holzer

My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation

CHF 45.30

My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation

CHF 45.30
Author: Joanie Holzer Schirm
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm's parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals, vintage film, taped interviews, and photographs. In working through these various materials documenting the life of her father, Oswald "Valdik" Holzer, she learned of her family history through his remarkable experiences of exile and loss, resilience and hope.

In this posthumous memoir, Schirm elegantly re-creates her father's youthful voice as he comes of age as a Jew in interwar Prague, escapes from a Nazi-held army unit, practices medicine in China's war-ravaged interior, and settles in the United States to start a family. Introducing us to a diverse cast of characters ranging from the humorous to the menacing, Holzer's life story is an inspirational account of survival during wartime, a cinematic epic spanning multiple continents, and ultimately a tale with a twist--a book that will move readers for generations to come.
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Author: Joanie Holzer Schirm
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 8.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781640120723

About the Author
Joanie Holzer Schirm was the founding president of Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants, Inc., in Orlando, Florida, which she directed for seventeen years. She is now a full-time writer, speaker, and curator of the Holzer Collection, her father's World War II legacy. Schirm is the author of Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection--Unlike Any Others, winner of the Global Ebook Award for best biography.

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