Friday, July 30, 2010

Is it Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman

Is it Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
March 2010
205 pgs.

Summary
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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