WWII | Ronni Sanlo

Published January 27, 2019

Today in LGBT History – JANUARY 27

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. From the Anti-Defamation League: And with the passage of time, as survivors pass away there are fewer and fewer individuals to tell their personal stories to kids, at community events and before government officials. There is no substitute for these direct connections to the Holocaust. Let us all resolve on

Published January 8, 2019

Today in LGBT History – JANUARY 8

I quit smoking 45 years ago when I saw my daughter imitating me smoking while teething on a carrot stick. Over the years to this day, I occasionally feel a deep desire to have a cigarette, usually when someone in my space annoys that crap out of me, usually a student every now and then

Published September 18, 2016

The 42nd Rainbow Division reunion and book launch

My book The Soldier, the Avatar, and the Holocaust: WWII Germany, January-May 1945 launched last week at a very special event. (It’s now available on Amazon and Kindle.) Last week Kelly and I went to Albany, NY, to attend the annual reunion of the 42nd Rainbow Division, the army unit featured in The Soldier, the Avatar,

Published September 3, 2016

Jews to wear the Yellow Star…

On September 1, 1941, Jews had to begin wearing a large yellow Star of David on their outer clothing to identify who they were. During this current horrendous presidential campaign, Donald Trump has suggested that some populations of people be marked similarly. Have we not learned anything? Will history repeat itself right here on U.S. soil? We

Published August 29, 2016

How The Soldier, the Avatar, and the Holocaust came about

I’ve been asked how The Soldier, the Avatar, and the Holocaust came about. My father wrote over 500 letters to my mother when he was a young newly-married soldier in 1944-1946. I didn’t know that my mother had kept every one of them for all these decades. One day she showed them to my sisters

Published August 26, 2016

Adding WWII history to the Story

Welcome! Thank you for being among those who are making pre-publication orders of The Soldier, the Avatar, and the Holocaust! Your books will ship during the first half of September. I’m looking forward to the actual book launch! It’s in Albany, NY, during the weekend of September 9th. My father’s army unit, the 42nd Rainbow

Ronni’s works in process:

The Key West Lesbian Story
as told by Sarah the Cat

Coming in the fall, 2018. $15.99

The last lesbian Key West guest house closed last year. Sara Cat has seen it all in her 150 years: the women pirates, the women cigar growers, the writers and poets an d entrepreneurs – all women – who came to Key West. Some stayed, some left, but all left their mark on a lesbian community that has seen many changes. Closeted women, out women, young women and elders, all with their own words and language and understanding of what it means to be a lesbian. I was a tiny kitten, in the first of my nine lives, when I came to Key West from Cuba with Louisa. I share with you what I know which may or may not be the truth. Years ago, I remember hearing one of the writers in town, maybe Ernest or maybe Tennessee, who knows, say something like, "I never let truth get in the way of a good story." Nor shall I. Pre-order your signed copy now.

Allegories and Alcohol: Women in Recovery.
With Dr. Kelly Watson.
Coming in winter, 2018. $19.00

The Soldier and the Time Travelin’ Teen:
A Journey back to the Holocaust

Readers play.
Coming in winter, 2018. $30