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A reader sent me his documentary trailer capturing the installation of stumbling stones in Germany to memorialize his family. The stones are a subject of great debate in Germany. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYdkFizIaM&feature=youtu.be

Loved this segment on creativity: http://www.pw.org/content/maira_kalman

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Simon & Schuster Aladdin will publish my next book in 2014. If you'd like to follow my progress, please like this link: http://www.facebook.com/MotherlandIsItNightOrDay Here's info about the subject of my next book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7VA-PbJR_I Surviving Theresienstadt: The Michael Gruenbaum Collection (Curators' Corner #8) www.youtube.com Judith Cohen, the Museum's photo archivist, explains in this episode of Curators' Corner how a scrapbook and "memory book" from the Michael Gruenbaum Collect...

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/31/153943491/stumbling-upon-miniature-memorials-to-nazi-victims?sc=tw&cc=share

Is It Night or Day? is a South Carolina Junior Book Award nominee for 2012-2013. In addition, the book is included on the following lists: * Maine State Student Book Award Master List * Bank Street College’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year” Master List * Tennessee YA Volunteer State Book Award Master List * Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2010 I'm also honored that Is It Night ...

I am scheduling school visits now for Fall 2012. Please book early for best rates. Visit this website for details: http://www.authorsillustrators.com/schumer_chapman/schumer_chapman.htm

Thinking about releasing a 5,000 to 12,000 word download capturing story of the Gerda and Edith reunion. I might make it available as a Kindle Singles. Interested? Please let me know. Thanks!

Dan Fleshler Huffington Post, March 7, 2012 On a bitterly cold day during a recent visit to Berlin, I stood in front of a modest, unfinished, yellow brick wall on the grounds of the Löcknitz-Grundschule, a primary school in the city's "Bayerische Viertel" (Bavarian Quarter). Children were shouting and scampering around on a nearby playground. Next to me, even though she had visited this wall many times, Gudrun Blankenburg had ...

...who asked me to re-post the link to the news story about the reunion of Edith and Gerda. Here you go: http://www.nctv17.com/napervillenews17/article.php?id=803