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Joanie Holzer Schirm

Joanie Holzer Schirm is the author of “My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation” (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press).

German Nazis riding in a convoy of motorcars invade Prague as people line the streets and watch silently in the rain and sleet on March 15, 1939 during the Czech German Occupation. (AP Photo)

Our fathers escaped the Holocaust: Recovering a wartime friendship through letters

Joanie Holzer Schirm