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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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Preface: Valdik’s Flight (Valdik Holzer: March 1939) Introduction: How Emptying Boxes Filled My Life (Joanie Holzer Schirm, 2018) Valdik’s Story 1. A Gifted Life 2. Bohemian Recollections 3. A World at War 4. A House of Many Rooms 5. “Without books, history is silent.” 6. Proud Czechs First 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture: Cafe Mánes 8. In Service of a Doomed Country 9. Compassionate Strangers 10. The Long Route to China 11. China Pulls Me In 12. A World Apart 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City 15. Outback of Nowhere—Pingting 16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart 17. Leaving China 18. From Freedom to Infamy 19. A New Life in a New World 20. The Letter That Changed Everything 21. Dealing with the Outcome Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index
Preface: Valdik’s Flight (Valdik Holzer: March 1939) Introduction: How Emptying Boxes Filled My Life (Joanie Holzer Schirm, 2018) Valdik’s Story 1. A Gifted Life 2. Bohemian Recollections 3. A World at War 4. A House of Many Rooms 5. “Without books, history is silent.” 6. Proud Czechs First 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture: Cafe Mánes 8. In Service of a Doomed Country 9. Compassionate Strangers 10. The Long Route to China 11. China Pulls Me In 12. A World Apart 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City 15. Outback of Nowhere—Pingting 16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart 17. Leaving China 18. From Freedom to Infamy 19. A New Life in a New World 20. The Letter That Changed Everything 21. Dealing with the Outcome Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index
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