The Holocaust-The Worst Man-Made Tragedy in Human History

3808 Shelby Street,Indianapolis IN 46227

22 September, 2021

Description

In today's society with anti-Semitism on the rise, it is important never to forget the Holocaust. Anita Tiemeyer has been a writer since elementary school. The plot of The Guardian’s Son was completed by the time Ms. Tiemeyer was thirteen years old. She began writing in earnest in 1999, and within eighteen months, she had roughed out an 800-page, single-spaced historical novel spanning seventy years. The Guardian’s Son is the first in a book series about Joe Kaufmann, a child Holocaust survivor, and his guardian, Dr. Grayson Pierce. Book IV, A Brother for Sorrows, begins in Bloomington, Indiana in 1962. Joe Kaufmann is now a doctoral student at Indiana University. This is a courtroom drama that takes Joe back to the Buchenwald concentration camp where family secrets are fiercely guarded. A riveting story with a surprise ending. Extensive research has been done for this book. Ms. Tiemeyer has traveled to Iowa twice to interview the last living World War II veteran who was the first to arrive at the Buchenwald concentration camp. She also interviewed another World War II veteran who had been a medical technician with the 120th Evacuation Hospital who had treated the Buchenwald survivors. In Washington, D. C. she interviewed historians from the National Memorial Holocaust Museum. Then in Ithaca, New York, she interviewed many individuals who had lived during the time of the book’s setting in the late 1940s. She has studied numerous books, periodicals, newspapers, documentaries, and videos to capture the historical backdrop of not only World War II and Nazi Germany, but also the popular culture of the United States in the 1940s. Ms. Tiemeyer was born and reared in Columbus, Indiana. She was a music education and history major at Western Illinois University, and received her bachelor’s degree in 1980. She entered the United States Air Force in 1983 and served until 1991 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. She attended and was awarded her master’s of music degree in 1995 from Butler University in Indianapolis. As a music educator by profession, she has maintained a private woodwinds studio in Central Indiana for the past thirty-five years. Among her hobbies are reading, movies, hiking, and gardening. Ms. Tiemeyer resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with her two cats, Annie and Donnie.