Holocaust
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Honoring UN World Refugee Day – June 20th – 74 years hence, my dad’s journey as a refugee
by Joanie Schirm on June 19, 2013 PermalinkDocks in Hong Kong, June 24, 1939 – L to R: unidentified aide to Frantisek Urbana, Leo Lilling (Valdik’s “distant cousin), and Oswald “Valdik” Holzer, a stateless Czech citizen on his way to China after escaping his Nazi-occupied homeland (then the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) According to the United Nations, every minute, 8 people
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Against all odds, life goes on – the proof of it all!
by Joanie Schirm on May 28, 2013 PermalinkThis Geni.com flow-chart image at the bottom of this blog accompanied an email from a newly found distant relative: The “You” that it’s drawing attention to is “Rafi Kornfeld” from Israel. The connection from him to me begins on his chart with Bertha Kantor who was sister to Ernestine (my great aunt) and sister to my grandmother: Olga (Orlik) Holzer.
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Sometimes Life Offers No Easy Answers; Only Questions That Need Answering
by Joanie Schirm on May 25, 2013 Permalinkhttp://www.floridatoday.com/article/20130518/OPINION/130516017/-1/OPINION03/Letter-Woman-brave-arrange-bombing-suspect-s-burial Sometimes Life Offers No Easy Answers; Only Questions that Need Answering… We each see life from our own eyes and hearts – brought about by our own life experiences. What is the “peaceful side of faith?”…What actions do we take that show our own path to this is sometimes a difficult answer? I’m trying to
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What Never Again Means to Me…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary
by Joanie Schirm on April 25, 2013 PermalinkNeverAgain_OA0313_op Orange Appeal Mag March 2013 On April 28, 2013, my husband, Roger Neiswender, and I, along with our “heritage network” friend Carole Kraus will sit together in an evening of tribute to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for 20 years of great service to this country and to the world. Carole and I
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CP April 2013 Interviewee is Local Orlando Author Joanie Schirm of Adventurers Against Their Will
by Joanie Schirm on April 18, 2013 PermalinkOrlando Author Joanie Schirm of Adventurers Against Their Will is feature interviewee When my family moved some twenty years ago to the charming Orlando downtown neighborhood nicknamed “College Park”, for the first time in my adult life, I felt really at home. Since I’d left home at 17 for college, I’d always lived in what
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Friends make the world go round…
by Joanie Schirm on March 13, 2013 PermalinkDerrick Salisbury on Facebook Derrick Salisbury shared a link Video of Adventurers Against Their…: “My mentor and former boss at the Orlando Area Sports Commission has written a just released book that documents her father’s fleeing World War II Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Asia and eventually to the States. It’s a fascinating story that Joanie put