Tom Kizzia: author of "Josie's Story: from 19th-century Sitka to her escape from the Holocaust"

Send us Fan MailWriter Tom Kizzia's eight-part series on the first white settler girl born in American Alaska concludes today in the Anchorage Daily News. “Josie’s Story" tells the story of the life of Josie Rudolph who was born in Sitka in 1869 to German Jewish parents but moved back to Germany when she was still a child. 69 years later in Nuremberg, it was Josie’s Alaskan birth that saved her from the Nazis.Tom Kizzia had a 25-year career as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He is the author of three books Cold Mountain Path,  Pilgrim’s Wilderness,  The Wake of the Unseen Object. This is Tom Kizzia’s third appearance on this podcast, please check out the links below to listen to his previous appearances:Tom Kizzia: author on ghost town McCarthyTom Kizzia: author of "Wake of the Unseen Object"