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Mar 1, 2019 · In a posthumous memoir, My Dear Boy, 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, and practices medicine in China’s war-ravaged interior, and settles in the United States to start a family.
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- Joanie Holzer Schirm
- $28.45
- Potomac Books
Mar 1, 2019 · “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 ...
- $34.95
- Potomac Books
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.
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...
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.
- Joanie Holzer Schirm
- 2019
Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm's parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held…
My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation on JSTOR. JOANIE HOLZER SCHIRM. Copyright Date: 2019. Published by: University of Nebraska Press, Potomac Books. Pages: 352. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbnm3bh. Select all. (For EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) (For BibTex) Front Matter. (pp. i-vi) Front Matter. (pp. i-vi)
