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

Autor Joanie Holzer Schirm
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2024
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781640126299
ISBN-10: 1640126295
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: 9 photographs, 4 illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Potomac Books Inc
Colecția Potomac Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Joanie Holzer Schirm was the founding president of Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants, Inc., in Orlando, Florida. After selling her engineering business, 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.
 

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Introduction: How Emptying Boxes Filled My Life
My Flight, by Vladik Holzer
1. Vladik's Story: A Gifted Life
2. Bohemian Recollections: Pre-1914
3. A World at War: 1914
4. A House of Many Rooms: 1918
5. "Without Books, History is Silent": 1919-1929
6. Proud Czechs First: 1931-1937
7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture–Cafe Manes: 1930s
8. In Service of a Doomed Country: 1937-1939
9. Compassionate Strangers: March 31-May 22, 1939
10. The Long Route to China: May 22-July 7, 1939
11. China Pulls Me In: July-September 1939
12. A World Apart: September-December 31, 1939
13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers: January 1940
14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City: February-April 1940
15. Outback of Nowhere–Pingting: May-July 1940
16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart: August-October 1940
17. Leaving China: October 1940-February 1941
18. From Freedom to Infamy: March-December 1941
19. A New Life in a New World: January 1942-May 1945
20. The Letter That Changed Everything: August 1945
21. Dealing with the Outcome: 1945-1952
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

“A personal story of the triumph of the human spirit and the universal quest for peace, Joanie Holzer Schirm’s My Dear Boy takes us on a journey around much of the world, traversing history as well as geography. It is a timeless and moving World War II story told by the author through the words of her refugee father.”—Nina Streich, executive director, Global Peace Collaborative

“[Joanie Schirm] creates a tribute to her father and all the people who struggle in exile.”—Liz Medor, Goldsboro News-Argus (North Carolina)

“Masterful. . . . This book adds one more incredible and moving story to the legacy of World War II, as expressed through Schirm’s detailed research, creating a more profound, emotional relationship with history. As the author suggests, get a ‘big mug of Pilsner,’ and settle in for an exquisite literary ride.”—Tina Scott Edstam, quarterly of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society

“This stunning tribute to Schirm’s father’s legacy of service reminds us that our examination of the human heart as individual characters should lead us to protect the dignity of all others, no matter the friction of our differences.”—Buddy Dyer, mayor of Orlando

“Funny, sad, poignant, insightful, and spiritual, My Dear Boy is simply captivating and lovingly told by his daughter, a rare English-speaking writer who really seems to understand Bohemia. I could not put it down.”—P. R. Pinard, PhD, American historian working in Prague since 1993

“Soul-searching, real, and human. . . . By sharing her father’s story and the four hundred letters he left behind, Joanie has given him immortality.”—Moying Li, award-winning author of Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China during the Cultural Revolution

“Educators will find no better book than My Dear Boy to provide the sweeping context of pre– and World War II multi-continental events during the late 1930s and early 1940s.”—William “Bill” Younglove, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow

“We learn from My Dear Boy how refugees and survivors in World War II were thrown into the midst of historical events and how they acted. There is enormous educational potential in the story of Dr. Oswald Holzer. We meet a man with values who never lost his empathy towards the ‘other.’ We learn that trauma often is overcome by resilience. Holzer’s life can teach future generations about history and humanity.”—Susanne Urban, PhD, former head of Historical Research and Education at the International Tracing Service, Germany

“A fascinating and very poignant story of professionalism, dedication, and survival! I understand Joanie Schirm’s efforts to preserve the details of her father’s saga.”—Lee R. Hiltzik, PhD, assistant director and head of donor relations and collection development at the Rockefeller Archive Center, New York

 “Out of the emotional landscape of her father’s experiences comes an extraordinary story of hope, passionately written . . . . At the heart of this book is the message in one letter that changed the way Dr. Holzer lived his life. This book is a labor of love for a daughter who tells a compelling story of a father who lived an exemplary life.”—Bill Nelson, U.S. senator, Florida

Descriere

A posthumous memoir, My Dear Boy recounts Oswald “Valdik” Holzer’s tale of refuge, resiliency, and hope as a Czechoslovakian Jew during World War II. This paperback edition includes discussion questions.