On Wednesday, December 5, Harvy will read a chapter from his upcoming third memoir, Just Lassen to Me! – Book Three: Survivor Learning. The chapter is about the tragic and sad death of his mother. A discussion will follow.
Harvy Simkovits was honored on November 2, among a number of other Lexington authors, at a local author celebration at Cary Memorial Library. His name will now be up for eternity on a wall within the library. Both Just Lassen to Me! Book One: Survivor Indoctrination and Book Two: Survivor Teachings are now available for loan at Cary.
Harvy presenting his books. Harvy performs riveting readings and powerful presentations at local area libraries.
Harvy was displaying and signing his book at the IPNE booth at Boston’s Book Festival on October 13.
Come join Harvy at a book signing at the IPNE booth at the Boston Book Festival on October 13 in Copley Square. Harvy was also present at Arlington Town Day on September 15.
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…..
An additional $500 was recently donated to the UUUM for their programs that support victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse.