Daily Herald covers author visit for all-school reads program
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20200124/author-visits-viking-middle-school
The Rock Star of Middle Schools!
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
Students delight in meeting Edith, Westerfeld, FSC's mother and the subject of her books. Edith, who is 94 years old now, is living history. She tells students of her childhood experiences during the Holocaust.
Another presentation at Algonquin Middle School
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/author-holocaust-survivor-schedule-return-to-algonquin-middle-school/
Seattle History blog features THREE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY
By Fern Schumer Chapman |
https://wedgwoodinseattlehistory.com/2019/11/29/an-immigrant-in-wedgwood-gerdas-story/three-stars-in-the-night-sky-by-fern-schumer-chapman/
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, was sent to Seattle. She was separated from her family for over 21 years. One ...