Like Finding My Twin: How An Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 3)

* Finalist, Society of Midland Authors 2015 Award (Children's Non-fiction) * Independent Publisher 2016 Bronze Medal Winner (Juvenile-Young Adult Non-fiction) On the ship that brought her from Nazi Germany to America, young Edith Westerfeld met Gerda Katz. Both 12-year-old girls were traveling alone and immediately became best friends. Unfortunately, the two unaccompanied minors lost touch after their arrival in 1938. Decades later, after a northern Illinois middle-school class read Is It Night or Day?, a historical novel that captures the two girls friendship, the students were so moved by the story that they made it a class project to reunite the two women. Fulfilling a shared life-long dream, the two women, now in their 80s, finally saw each other again in Seattle, Washington, in 2011. Through historical documents, photographs, and storytelling, Like Finding My Twin captures the friendship of the two Holocaust refugees, the students' research, and the remarkable reunion 73 years after Gerda and Edith shared their immigration journey. Like Finding My Twin fulfills Common Core State Standard (CCSS) requirements for Holocaust, Diversity, Character Education, and Service Learning mandates, and it can be read with Is It Night or Day? as paired fiction/non-fiction texts. A Teacher's Guide is available.

Children's Books

Fern Schumer Chapman

Religions

Gussie Rose Press

A Junior Library Guild spring 2017 selectionEdith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if the memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions of other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now -- 76 years after Edith's parents saved their daughter's life by sending her, alone and terrified, to America -- she returns to the small German town where her family had lived for hundreds of years. Invited to witness the installation of a memorial to her family --  part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II -- she experiences how art is helping today's generation face and atone for crimes of the past. Stumbling On History carries readers along on this journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolpersteine -- "Stumbling Stones." Watching former neighbors and their descendants struggle to right their nation's past wrongs, she realizes, at last, the power of hearing, "I'm sorry."

Stumbling On History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town To Face Its Past (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 4)

History

A Junior Library Guild spring 2017 selection Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if the memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions of other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now,76 years after Edith s parents saved their daughter s life by sending her, alone and terrified, to America she returns to the small German town where her family had lived for hundreds of years. Invited to witness the installation of a memorial to her family part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II she experiences how art is helping today s generation face and atone for crimes of the past. Stumbling On History carries the readers along on this journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolpersteine -- Stumbling Stones. Watching her former neighbors and descendants struggle to right their nation's past wrongs, she realizes at last the power of hearing, "I'm sorry."

Stumbling On History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town to Face its Past (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 4)

* Finalist, Society of Midland Authors 2015 Award (Children's Non-fiction)  * Independent Publisher 2016 Bronze Medal Winner (Juvenile-Young Adult Non-fiction)   On the ship that brought her from Nazi Germany to America, young Edith Westerfeld met Gerda Katz. Both 12-year-old girls were traveling alone and immediately became best friends. Unfortunately, the two unaccompanied minors lost touch after their arrival in 1938. Decades later, after a northern Illinois middle-school class read Is It Night or Day?, a historical novel that captures the two girls friendship, the students were so moved by the story that they made it a class project to reunite the two women. Fulfilling a shared life-long dream, the two women, now in their 80s, finally saw each other again in Seattle, Washington, in 2011. Through historical documents, photographs, and storytelling, Like Finding My Twin captures the friendship of the two Holocaust refugees, the students' research, and the remarkable reunion 73 years after Gerda and Edith shared their immigration journey. Like Finding My Twin fulfills Common Core State Standard (CCSS) requirements for Holocaust, Diversity, Character Education, and Service Learning mandates, and it can be read with Is It Night or Day? as paired fiction/non-fiction texts. A Teacher's Guide is available.

A 2018 Junior Library Guild selection At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what's now known as an "unaccompanied minor." Gerda's story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minors immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night Sky illuminates the personal damage of racism in three countries -- Nazi Germany, the Dominican Republic, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s -- and the emotional devastation of a child coming to a new country alone.

Three Stars in the Night Sky (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 5)

Happy Harper Thursdays: A Grandmother's Love for Her Granddaughter during the Coronavirus

Schumer Chapman, Fern

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Picture book explaining why a grandmother cannot visit her granddaughter during the Coronavirus

Chapman, Fern Schumer

A picture book to help children understand why they can't see their beloved grandparents during the pandemic.When people who love each other can't be together, it's heartbreaking. And when a child is too young to understand a sudden, prolonged cut-off from a beloved relative or friend, everyone hurts. In Happy Harper Thursdays, Fern Schumer Chapman explains to young children, simply and clearly, why we can't be with the people we love during the Coronavirus. This colorful, delightfully illustrated book captures how this pandemic disrupts the cherished routine of a grandmother and granddaughter. When the two can see and hear each other only electronically, the confused child wonders why she and her grandmother aren't really together. Children often think they are responsible for events that have nothing to do with them. With that in mind, Chapman wrote Happy Harper Thursdays to help her granddaughter-- and millions of other children worldwide-- understand this difficult separation.

Middle School Student Sleuths Refuse to Let History Be Forgotten.In an extraordinary act of service and dedication, a group of committed middle-school students embarked on a mission to reunite two Holocaust refugees who, inseparable in their youth, lost contact 73 years ago after escaping Nazi Germany together in 1938.Through photographs, text, and historical documents, readers witness the determination of these young sleuths as they piece together the lives of these unaccompanied minors, spanning over seven decades. The reunion, captured in this first book of The Legacy of the Holocaust Series, also was featured on Oprah.

Middle School Sleuths: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees (The Legacy of the Holocaust)

Biographies

Is It Night or Day?: A True Story of a Jewish Child Fleeing the Holocaust

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

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Like Finding My Twin: How An Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 3)

Stumbling On History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town To Face Its Past (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 4)

Stumbling On History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town to Face its Past (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 4)

Like Finding My Twin: How An Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 3)

Three Stars in the Night Sky (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 5)

Happy Harper Thursdays: A Grandmother's Love for Her Granddaughter during the Coronavirus

Happy Harper Thursdays: A Grandmother's Love for Her Granddaughter during the Coronavirus

Happy Harper Thursdays: A Grandmother's Love for Her Granddaughter during the Coronavirus

Middle School Sleuths: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees (The Legacy of the Holocaust)

Is It Night or Day?: A True Story of a Jewish Child Fleeing the Holocaust