Trauma

Here's what you don't see when you listen to the radio -- the view from the new WGN-radio studios on Wacker Drive in Chicago. I was on Rick Kogan's "After Hours" show last night. I'll post the link to the podcast soon.

We, the children of Holocaust survivors and refugees, know all too well the lifelong, psychological devastation of a child's early separation from his or her parents.   https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/06/18/it-is-immoral-former-first-lady-laura-bush-criticizes-the-separation-of-migrant-children-from-their-parents/23461456/

On one of our visits to Germany, a woman my mother hardly remembered asked that we visit her in a nursing home. My mother wasn't interested, but the woman insisted, saying she had something for us. Finally, we stopped by her home, and she presented Mom with this box. "Before your mother was forced to leave her home in the 1930s," the woman said, "she gave me this box, handmade ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-forest/news/ct-lfr-lake-bluff-history-museum-tl-0517-story.html

April 27, 2018 - Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/is-there-a-holocaust-renaissance-in-our-future/article_5339f046-4986-11e8-a2fb-175ee34814a3.html

  THREE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY is the sixth book on the second line.

From Publisher's Marketplace: March 6, 2018 Non-fiction: Advice/Relationships Fern Schumer Chapman's RETURNING BY THE ROAD WE CAME: On Sibling Relationships, Lost and Found Again, an exploration of estrangement and reconciliation between sisters and brothers, and how these relationships can be transformed, to Carole Desanti at Viking, by Marian Young (world).   If you are estranged from a sibling and you would like to take a survey and participate in my ...

 Jane Addams JHS eighth-graders were riveted during an assembly this morning as they listened to award-winning author Fern Schumer Chapman share the story of her mother, 92-year-old Holocaust refugee Edith Westerfeld – and then heard from Westerfeld herself. The presentation tied in with the students’ studies of the Holocaust in Language Arts and World War II in social studies. Westerfeld was 12 when her parents sent her to the United ...

At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what’s now known as an “unaccompanied minor.” Gerda’s story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6tCR-Mmsw