My Dear Boy

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.

Joanie Holzer Schirm was the founding president of Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants, Inc., in Orlando, Florida. After selling her engineering business, 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.