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Freedom for Cuba
by Joanie Schirm on November 27, 2016 PermalinkWith the passing of Fidel Castro, I’m reminded of a time in the early 1960s when my parents offered to house a Cuban refugee family just after their escape from the tyranny of Castro’s regime. In our home in Indialantic came a small, very sad family who spoke little English and wished only to gain
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Helping Future Peacemakers Understand the Past. A True Story Tells it Best.
by Joanie Schirm on November 4, 2015 PermalinkFrom the moment I read the last letter that my grandfather Arnošt wrote to my dad, I knew it held meaning beyond the four walls of my writing room. Dated April 21, 1942, just three days before Arnošt and my grandmother Olga Holzer were taken from Prague on a Nazi transport to their deaths, the