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

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

Schirm, Joanie Holzer

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Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 1640126295
ISBN13: 9781640126299
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Sep 1 2024
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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. As she worked through these materials documenting the life of her father, Oswald Valdik Holzer, she learned of her family history and 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 cast of diverse 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. This paperback edition of My Dear Boy includes questions for discussion.

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