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How do you know the value of your writing?
As a writer, I work day in, day out in solitude. Some mornings I’m at my desk at 6:30 a.m. Other days I feel guilty because I don’t arrive in my writing room (converted upstairs game room) until 8:30 a.m. Most days I take an hour for lunch, solely to give my eyes a rest;…
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Against all odds, life goes on – the proof of it all!
This 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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May 21, 1939 – A Trip That Never Ended
Seventy-four years ago, Oswald “Valdik” Holzer started a trip that never ended. Beginning a twisted worldwide journey, on May 21, 1939 my father forever departed from his homeland; only to return “home” again as a visitor. As he left, he said goodbye to his parent’s at Prague’s Woodrow Wilson train station. Two months earlier, his…
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What Never Again Means to Me…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary
NeverAgain_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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Joan Holzer-Schirm is Peter Rohel’s fourth great aunt’s third cousin once removed’s husband’s second great niece!
So when you put something out there in a book that has a smidgen of genealogy included…prepare to be amazed. In today’s world of virtual connections spelled out on websites like GENI and Ancestry.com, in an instant you can have real cousins from around the globe getting in touch. Here’s my latest example and it’s…
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So you want to be an author?
So you want to be an author? Trust me; if you take this new job as a writer seriously, you are in for an experience-like-none-other. After thirty-five years in the business of engineering, seventeen as a business owner, involved in community activism up to my eye balls, in 2008 I retired to write a book…
Steadfast Ink: The Journey Within
MY DEAR BOY: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
Adventurers Against Their Will
