two Czech Jews who as teenagers were swept up by the Holocaust in Hungary and survived Auschwitz and Mauthausen
Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him
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the sisters attempt to come to terms with what had made their father into the deeply flawed
My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Family secrets two Czech Jews who asIn this posthumous memoir, Joanie Holzer Schirm reveals the life story of her father, Oswald Valdik Holzer, as an inspirational account of survival during wartime,. She finds hundreds of letters after the death of her parents in 2000. They were held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks. Those were sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, South America and North America along with journals, vintage film, taped interviews,