Awards

FSC at Thompson Middle School After a visit to Thompson Middle School in St. Charles, Illinois, 8th graders sent me these comments: "...I am a huge fan! I think that Edith is super brave and amazing." - Jessica "Is It Night or Day? really opened my eyes because you went on with your life without your parents and your own family. People don't see that they have wonderful parents and ...

On Saturday, March 16, 2013, at noon Central time, OWN will rebroadcast the "Lost and Found" show that captures how compassionate 8th graders reunited two 86-year-old Holocaust survivors.

8th graders reunite Holocaust survivors. Spoiler alert-5 min of OWN show of actual reunion http://www.oprah.com/media.html?content_id=ep101-laf-holocaust-survivers-

Naperville Sun reports on OWN show featuring Madison Jr. High students' role in reuniting two Holocaust survivors pulse-oprah-citys-chance-for-new-website-3d-at-ogden-6.html Here’s a sneak peek at the OWN show: Sneak-Peek-Watch-the-First-5-Minutes-of-Lost-and-Found-Video#ixzz2FQhkBqo6

Lost and Found/ Edith and Gerda reunion story

Ah, yes....Motherland!

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...