Motherland

Manchester Township High School students (Manchester, NJ) attentively listen to FSC's presentation on the long reach of Edith's childhood immigratiion story

Madison Junior High School Learning Center in Naperville, IL where FSC presented her mother's story to students Letter from Madison Junior High School history teacher, Catie O'Boyle: Mrs. Chapman, My name is Catie O'Boyle. I am a history teacher at Madison Junior High School in Naperville. You came to visit our school a few weeks ago. My students and I were so moved by your mother's story that we decided ...

"In English, we read your book, Is It Night or Day? and I was really touched by it. My family came to America because of Jewish persecution in Russia so the book really did touch me. By the end of the book, I was sobbing." "When Tiddy had expressed her own feelings after she had been teased and bullied at school and yelled at at home, I realized just how ...

Norton Middle School in Norton, MA selected Is It Night or Day? for its all-school reads program this year. The school's halls were lined with student work -- posters, letters, and family stories -- responding to the book.

“Why,” students ask me, “do you spend so much time writing and telling your mother’s story?” I tell my mother’s story for both personal and political reasons. My personal reasons were captured perfectly in a recent New York Times review of a new book called, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. “Memory is intricately tied to identity; we are a product of our own experiences. What ...

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From the Norton, MA "Patch:" Fern Schumer Chapman to discuss book themes, answer questions. By Kelly Mello | Email the author | April 7, 2011 The first long train trip I ever took in Germany was my last. Now I see that it was a funeral procession. The mourners traveling with me were my father, my mother, and Mina, a Christian girl who lived with my family and was as ...

MISSION STATEMENT The Maine Student Book Award is designed to expand literary horizons of students in grades 4-8 by encouraging them to read, evaluate, and enjoy a selection of new books and to choose a statewide favorite by written ballot each spring.ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR MAINE STUDENT BOOK AWARD The award is determined each year by participating Maine students in grades four through eight. The winner is selected from ...

The memories keep you awake Berce Kahraman (foreground) and classmates carry copies of 'Mutterland' -- a gift from the German Society to Preserve Jewish Culture to Russelsheim schools 03.03.2011 - RÜSSELSHEIM Von Tobias Riedl The German Foundation to Preserve Jewish Culture brings the story of Holocaust survivors to schools "It is important to us to introduce the Holocaust in Rüsselsheims' schools to get people talking," says Dr. Bärbel Maul, a ...

Edith's German school picture From the German publisher of Mutterland: Dear Fern and Edith, Can write us some sentences for the students and children who are able to read your book, maybe some experiences or impressions after your readings with children and young people in America and in Germany? As child, my mother, Edith Westerfeld, was labeled as "other" in two countries. In Germany, she was identified as inferior and ...