Raymond LohneRaymond Arthur Lohne was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1956. He holds a Master's degree in history from Northeastern Illinois University and is currently a teaching assistant and Ph.D. student in the History Department at the University of Ilinois at Chicago, where his field research involves interviewing, photographing, and filming the Danube Swabians of Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Romania living in Chicago and other major American cities. His first book was The Great Chicago Refugee Rescue, published in 1997 by Picton Press. Mr. Lohne's efforts are helping illuminate an unexplored episode in American and European history, and readers everywhere will appreciate the visual tour of a remnant people that this excellent addition to the Images of America series represents. Read More Read Less