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  • May 21, 1939 – A Trip That Never Ended

    May 21, 1939 – A Trip That Never Ended

    by Joanie Schirm on May 19, 2013

    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…

  • What Never Again Means to Me…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary

    What Never Again Means to Me…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary

    by Joanie Schirm on April 25, 2013

    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…

  • So you want to be an author?

    So you want to be an author?

    by Joanie Schirm on February 19, 2013

    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…