Karl Holm with Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., announce publication of new book
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Recording Karl Holm’s personal account of his mission work in Ørkenen Sur, “Mission to the City: My Experiences During the Great Depression” (published by WestBow Press) by Karl Holm with Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., shows both the positive and negative experiences Holm had during the Great Depression.
During the Great Depression, Ørkenen Sur – the setting of this memoir – was a shanty area in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn where many poor, unemployed and homeless Norwegian immigrants gathered and called home. Here Holm describes how the people responded to his love shared through shelter, food and the Christian message despite their dismal circumstances. Holm also recounts his rounds in the hospitals, helping the ill and dying reconnect with their families, and how a cat led him to find an ill man. The book was translated by Arnold E. Andersen, M.D., his grandson, with the assistance of Kari Schussler.
The book is “a nod of recognition of the way it was and how similar it is to today’s outcasts; an inspiration to do likewise,” Andersen says. “Society still has great needs that calls to each one of us to reach out.”
“Mission to the City”
By Karl Holm with Arnold E. Andersen, M.D.
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 108 pages | ISBN 9781512770070
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 108 pages | ISBN 9781512770087
E-Book | 108 pages | ISBN 9781512770063
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Karl Holm was born in Norway in 1877. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 to work as a carpenter, but soon found his calling as a missionary during the depression. Years later he was recognized by the king of Norway and the mayor of New York for his work. He has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles.
