Joachim ‘Jon’ Fels, born January 19, 1936 in Halle, Germany, peacefully left his earthly home on the 12th day of February, 2023 in Baton Rouge, LA., surrounded by his loved ones.
Jon’s childhood years in wartime Germany left him fatherless at age 7. The postwar occupation and Stalinist rule by Russia made him fiercely determined to denounce Communism and seek the possibility of freedom and…