Title My dear boy : a World War II story of escape, exile, and revelation / Joanie Holzer Schrim.

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Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 317 pages)
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Note	Includes index.
Contents	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; My Flight; 1. Valdik's Story; 2. Bohemian Recollections; 3. A World at War; 4. A House of Many Rooms; 5. "Without Books, History Is Silent"; 6. Proud Czechs First; 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture-Café Mánes; 8. In Service of a Doomed Country; 9. Compassionate Strangers; 10. The Long Route to China; 11. China Pulls Me In; 12. A World Apart; 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers; 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City; 15. Outback of Nowhere-Pingting
	16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart17. Leaving China; 18. From Freedom to Infamy; 19. A New Life in a New World; 20. The Letter That Changed Everything; 21. Dealing with the Outcome; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Index; About Joanie Holzer Schirm
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 11, 2019).
Subject	Holzer, Oswald A., 1911-2000.
	Jews -- Czech Republic -- Benešov (Okres) -- Biography.
	Jewish refugees -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
	Jews, Czech -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
	Benešov (Czech Republic : Okres) -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
	Jewish refugees. (OCoLC)fst01730523
	Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
	Jews, Czech. (OCoLC)fst00983431
	China -- Shanghai. (OCoLC)fst01205418
	Czech Republic -- Benešov (Okres) (OCoLC)fst01332467
Genre/Form	Biography.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Schirm, Joanie Holzer. My dear boy. Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019] (DLC) 2018028078
ISBN	9781640121737 (electronic book)
	1640121730 (electronic book)
	9781640121713 (electronic book)
	1640121714 (electronic book)

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