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Exhibit features 1941 letter from Gerda Katz’s family in Dominican Republic
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
My mother’s best friend from the ship, Gerda Katz, had saved over 170 letters from her family, who had escaped Nazi Germany to the Dominican Republic in the 1930s. (I included a few of these letters in my book, THREE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY.) Gerda, who also fled Germany as a 12-year-old unaccompanied minor, …
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THREE STARS makes 7th grade required reading list
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
Honored that my book, THREE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY, is included on this 7th grade required reading list for 2019-2020 at Maui Waena Intermediate School in Kahului, Hawaii! A 2018 Junior Library Guild selection – At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself as an …
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The Unwanted: My Mother
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
(Five stars) The Unwanted is my family story, too. I have come to know the people in my mother’s small town in Germany — Stockstadt am Rhein — where our family lived for over 200 years. My mother and her sister escaped Germany, but the Nazis murdered my grandparents. Families of both victims and perpetrators …
Hugs and flowers from a 5th grader
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
Marking the end of a year of wonderful school visits, fifth graders at Oak Ridge Elementary School present roses to my mother and me.