Flight of Remembrance: A WWII Tale of Love & Survival
August 22, 2016Author Marina Dutzmann Kirsch will share her book “Flight of Remembrance,” Monday, Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested by calling 524-5600.
The book tells the story of her father, Rolf, who is forced under threat of execution or exile to flee his homeland and repatriate to Germany in 1939 before the first Soviet takeover. Rolf is a Latvian aeronautical engineering student who meets Lilo, a young German woman, in 1940 Berlin.
Despite the immeasurable evil, suffering and desolation of WWII, Rolf and Lilo experience their most cherished dreams come to pass. This includes Rolf’s employment in the U.S. Space Program after their 1951 immigration.