Flight of Remembrance
Marina Dutzmann Kirsch is a graphic and book designer, author, and public speaker living in Kensington, NH. She also serves as an Area Director in Toastmasters International, a worldwide non-profit that helps members build their public speaking and leadership skills. We have conducted an interview with her about her book & events— Flight of Remembrance —the true story of her family in WWII Latvia, occupied Poland, & Germany. What was the 'existential dilemma' in this book? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, existentialism centers "on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad." This was certainly the case for my family during WWII. In late 1939, my father, Rolf Dutzmann, a Latvian aeronautical engineering student, faced a life or death situation that would ch...