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The Polish Architect

A Family's Plan That Falls Apart Then Succeeds

By: Ron Molenda

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The Polish Architect

A Family's Plan That Falls Apart Then Succeeds

By: Ron Molenda

A hardworking and loving family in Poland is uprooted and separated by World War II. The mother and her four children are able to reach the United States prior to Hitlers invasion of Poland. The father and youngest son choose to remain in Poland so that the boy can finish his college education and then join the family in the United States at a later date. The plan fails, and they are stuck in Europe. The family is separated for the duration of the war. When the war ends, they are reunited with the help of the Red Cross, and the father and son are finally able to rejoin their family. The youngest son, a successful architect, marries and has a son who later becomes a priest. The family is hit with a tragedy, but it eventually allows good things to happenthings that will help many unfortunate people live better lives.

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Oshkosh: Looking Back

By: Ron La Point

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Oshkosh: Looking Back

By: Ron La Point

The book examines the history of sports in Oshkosh. It includes stories of basketball, baseball, football, bowling and golf and by those who played the game. It is also about the past, a time slowly receding in our memories. The story of the Oshkosh All Stars is the featured story. It was our own professional basketball team that brought home the World Professional Basketball Championship in 1942. It’s also a story of Lonnie Darling and its featured player, Leroy “Lefty” Edwards. Edwards was considered the best player of his time and helped carry the name of Oshkosh throughout the country. There other story lines as well. Oshkosh has a long history of amateur and professional baseball and those stories are an integral part of the book as is the city’s bowling history and three of its finest performers. The current controversy over the land usage on the city’s municipal golf course sold recently to the Oshkosh Truck Corporation leads to a number of stories about the history of the Lakeshore Golf Course and the impact it has had on many who played there. Oshkosh is not Green Bay but has its own football story. The book features the Oshkosh Comets and four from our city who played for the Green Bay Packers. A book on the history of Oshkosh sports would be incomplete without including two resident Olympians. Their stories, unknown to many, are told here.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457566710

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9781457566714

A Jewish Journey

Surviving and Thriving in Poland, Israel, and the United States

By: Sam Ron

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A Jewish Journey

Surviving and Thriving in Poland, Israel, and the United States

By: Sam Ron

A Jewish Journey is the memoir of Sam Ron, born Shmuel Rakowski in Kazimierza-Wielka, a tiny village, or shtetl, near Krakow, Poland, in 1924, which was overtaken by the Nazis in 1939. As opposed to other Holocaust memoirs, the book takes the form of a Q&A with students who have met him to hear his story, underscoring the importance of Holocaust education not only for Sam himself, but also for all those who will never have the opportunity to meet a survivor. It is written in a novelistic form, in order to touch the heart as well as the mind. Ron is one of the oldest living survivors of the Nazi death camps. After the war, he worked for Bericha, an organization that resettled in the Land of Israel orphaned refugees from Europe. He also served in the Haganah fighting force and was what is known as a chalutz, an early settler before the founding of the State of Israel, where he helped found a settlement and served as a soldier in the Haganah, the precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. He subsequently immigrated to the U.S. and was a successful land developer in Akron and Canton, Ohio. Now Sam lives in Boca Raton, Florida, and continues what he has done for over half a century: educating young and old about his experiences of the momentous historical events in which he has taken part. Along with his acclaimed work as a volunteer educator, until 2019, Sam Ron was a regular volunteer for the March of the Living, a longstanding educational program that takes students and adults to Poland and Israel to visit many of the same places where he survived—and thrived.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0761873597

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The Polish Architect

A Family's Plan That Falls Apart Then Succeeds

By: Ron Molenda

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A Family's Plan That Falls Apart Then Succeeds

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The Polish Architect

The Polish Architect

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Oshkosh: Looking Back

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A Jewish Journey

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