Background
Fern Schumer Chapman was born on November 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Schumer, a surgeon, and Edith Schumer Brietkopf, a nurse.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In 1976 Fern Schumer Chapman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
In 1977 Fern Schumer Chapman obtained a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University.
(In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents - before being killed...)
In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents - before being killed by the Nazis - sent her from Germany to live with relatives in America. Fifty-four years later, Edith decided that it was time to, with her grown daughter Fern, revisit the town she had left so many years before. For Edith the trip was a chance to reconnect and reconcile with her past; for Fern it was a chance to learn what lay behind her mother's silent grief. On their journey, Fern and her mother shared many extraordinary encounters with the townspeople and - more importantly - with one another, closing the divide that had long stood between them.
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2000
(It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move fro...)
It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she's lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about one girl's escape from Hitler's Germany was inspired by the experiences of the author's mother, one of twelve hundred children rescued by Americans as part of the One Thousand Children project. This title has Common Core connections.
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2010
(On the ship that brought her from Nazi Germany to America...)
On the ship that brought her from Nazi Germany to America, young Edith Westerfeld met Gerda Katz. Both 12-year-old girls were traveling alone and immediately became best friends. Unfortunately, the two unaccompanied minors lost touch after their arrival in 1938.
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2015
(Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonde...)
Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonders if the memory of the Nazis murdering her parents, along with millions of other victims, will outlive the survivors. Now,76 years after Edith s parents saved their daughter s life by sending her, alone and terrified, to America she returns to the small German town where her family had lived for hundreds of years. Invited to witness the installation of a memorial to her family part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II she experiences how art is helping today s generation face and atone for crimes of the past. Stumbling On History carries the readers along on this journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolpersteine - Stumbling Stones. Watching her former neighbors and descendants struggle to right their nation's past wrongs, she realizes at last the power of hearing, "I'm sorry."
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2017
(At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came t...)
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 minors immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the Night Sky illuminates the personal damage of racism in three countries - Nazi Germany, the Dominican Republic, and the United States during the 1930s and 40s - and the emotional devastation of a child coming to a new country alone.
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2018
Fern Schumer Chapman was born on November 29, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Schumer, a surgeon, and Edith Schumer Brietkopf, a nurse.
In 1976 Fern Schumer Chapman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1977 she obtained a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University.
From 1977 to 1978 Fern Schumer Chapman was a correspondent at Berns Bureau, a news service. From 1978 to 1980 she was a Washington correspondent for Forbes magazine. From 1980 to 1984 Chapman was a reporter for Chicago Tribune. Since 1984 she has been a freelance writer. She is a contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including USA Today, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Parenting, Savvy Woman, North Shore, and Reason. In the beginning of 1990, she was a teacher of magazine writing seminars at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
(It's 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move fro...)
2010(Edith Westerfeld, an 89-year-old Holocaust refugee, wonde...)
2017(In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents - before being killed...)
2000(On the ship that brought her from Nazi Germany to America...)
2015(At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came t...)
2018On September 10, 1983 Fern Schumer married Stephen James Chapman. They have three children: Ross James, Keith Westerfeld, Isabelle Sarah.