News from Jane Addams Junior High School
By fern | News
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 ...