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

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...