“This is a very good (and very important) book about a girl…who lost everything to war and had to start anew in America as a refugee in the 1940s, and her return to the land she once loved…I highly recommend this book for school libraries, public libraries, Holocaust Studies classrooms and resource rooms, and for …
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8-10 a.m. A one-hour radio interview on WGTB Morning Show with Greg Berg. He interviews FSC about all three of her books. The show will be archived at this link: http://www.wgtd.org/Morning_Show.asp
After decades of silence about her family history, Edith, at 90, tells her story at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center of coming to America alone as a 12-year-old girl. This year, she decided to become a docent at the Skokie, IL museum.
Here’s a glimpse at my NEW narrative non-fiction book for upper elementary and middle school students, “LIKE FINDING MY TWIN: How Two Holocaust Refugees Were Reunited by Mrs. O’Boyle’s 8th Graders.” Copies will be available in June. I’ll post some of the spreads in the coming weeks. You can reserve a copy now by emailing …
Good Reads Review of IS IT NIGHT OR DAY? Lynne rated it 5 of 5 stars Shelves: children, children-of-all-ages, historical-fiction, middle-grade, realistic-fiction, strong-girls, young-adult This is a very, very good book! It is historical fiction based on the life of the author’s mother. It begins in a small town in Nazi Germany where we meet …
New Good Reads review identifies my concerns… (see bold)Read More »
My friend, Jürgen Flügge (Mina’s son), just found an old suitcase full of postcards and letters from my mother, Edith, to her dear German friend, Mina. This is the first postcard 12-year-old Edith sent to 19-year-old Mina from the ship, the Deutschland, in March 1938! Here is what Edith wrote: My dear Mina, I don’t …
Here is part of what the mayor, who expected a fight, told the Community Council this week: Stockstadt am Rhine had a relatively small Jewish community, composed mainly of Westerfeld, Kahn, and Gutjahr families. The survivors and descendants of the Westerfelds have explicitly expressed interest and agreed to the …
Stockstadt mayor makes the case for Stumbling StonesRead More »
Here is part of the article that ran in the German newspaper, RIED ECHO, on September 12, 2013: MUNICIPALITY PARLIAMENT Stockstädter decides to lay stumbling blocks against forgetting STOCKSTADT. The Community Council decided Tuesday that Stumbling Stones will be laid in memory of those deported during the Nazi regimes. Bürgermeister Thomas Ra Herschel (CDU) …
Stockstadt decides to lay stumbling stones to memorilize my grandparentsRead More »