Monthly Archives: July 2018
An Immigrant Son Launches Riveting Memoir: Just Lassen to Me! – A First-Generation Son’s Story: Surviving a Survivor Is it possible to admire a man’s accomplishments but abhor what he stands for, to seek his blessing but spur his legacy? What is that man is your father? In his newly published memoir, Just Lassen to Me!, and perhaps for his whole life, Harvy Simkovits has strived to answer those questions about his father, Johnny. “My father was like Tony Soprano…..
Is it possible to admire a man’s accomplishments but abhor what he stands for, to seek his blessing but spurn his legacy? What if that man is your father? Now thirteen years into its making, Harvy Simkovits’s enthralling memoir series Just Lassen to Me! continues into its second volume. It’s the continuation of the true, enthralling family and family business tale behind the big businessman, Johnny Simkovits, and his disaffected wife and feuding adult sons. Book Two: Survivor Teachings takes…..
In May of this year, Harvy Simkovits was among a group of retired cadets who, decades after their service to the BCS #2 Cadet Corps, received a medal from the Canadian government for their four to six years of service to the Canadian military. Here is Harvy receiving his medal for his five years of service, flanked by the recently retired Governor General of Canada, his wife who is a high-ranking officer in the Canadian Navy, and senior members of…..
On June 28, Harvy told stories to a fascinated audience at Cary Memorial Library about the first and second volumes of his memoir, Just Lassen to Me! He spoke to 35 family photos from his first two books, and the moral and ethical dilemmas that his family put him through. Harvy’s told about how his father, Johnny, fought both sides of WWII, lost everything he had accumulated to the Soviet takeover of his country, and then he escaped the communists and…..