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2010., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: Historical fiction FIC CHAPMAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Gussie Rose Press Call No: HI-INT 940.53 1864 CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This remarkable work of narrative non-fiction brings readers to a Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) ceremony in Stockstadt am Rhein, Germany.
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Three stars in the night sky : a refugee family's odyssey of separation and reunion to face its past2018, c2018., Pre-adolescent, Gussie Rose Press Call No: 940.53 CHAPMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 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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Three stars in the night sky : a refugee family's odyssey of separation and reunion to face its past[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Gussie Rose Press Call No: HI-INT 940.53 CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 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.
