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My Dear Boy - A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation (Hardcover)
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My Dear Boy - A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation (Hardcover)
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After her parents' death in 2000, author Joanie Holzer Schirm found
hundreds of letters held together by rusty paperclips and stamped
with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China,
South and North America, along with journals, vintage film, taped
interviews, and photographs. In working through the various
materials documenting Oswald "Valdik" Holzer's journey from
Czechoslovakia to China, America to Peru and Ecuador, Schirm
learned of her family history through her father's experience of
exile and loss, resiliency and hope. In this poignant, posthumous
memoir, Schirm reconstructs 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
resettles in America to start a family. Encountering a diverse cast
of characters from the humorous to the menacing, Holzer's
corresponded with family, friends, and authorities across Europe,
China, and the Americas. After the war, Holzer receives a letter
from his father "that changed everything". Written in 1942 before
his parents were transported to a Nazi death camp, the letter
begins: "My dear boy." The legacy of this remarkable piece of
correspondence is the book's culmination-a universal formula for
redemption and triumph.
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