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Stumbling On History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town To Face Its Past (The Legacy of the Holocaust series, Book 4) - Softcover
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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 readers along on this journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolpersteine -- "Stumbling Stones." Watching former neighbors and their descendants struggle to right their nation's past wrongs, she realizes, at last, the power of hearing, "I'm sorry."
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 readers along on this journey, as Edith joins the ceremony of Stolpersteine -- "Stumbling Stones." Watching former neighbors and their descendants struggle to right their nation's past wrongs, she realizes, at last, the power of hearing, "I'm sorry."
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Fern Schumer Chapman is the author of four award-winning books: Motherland: A Mother/Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past, Is It Night or Day?, Like Finding My Twin: How An Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees, and Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels A Small German Town to Face its Past. A sought-after speaker, she has presented to hundreds of schools,libraries, charity events, and women's organizations. She lives innorthern Illinois.
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"This slender book is both a memory and a memorial, a tribute and a warning, a look at what is and what was...A gateway to this piece of world history, and to a discussion of the need to remember and atone in order not to repeat horrendous events of the past."
Jewish Book Council
"This is a book I can pick up again and again and find something deeper each time. It has helped me to realize that there were so many levels of hurt associated with the Holocaust, at so many different places around the world."
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Jewish Book Council
"This is a book I can pick up again and again and find something deeper each time. It has helped me to realize that there were so many levels of hurt associated with the Holocaust, at so many different places around the world."
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- PublisherGussie Rose Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0996472517
- ISBN 13 9780996472517
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages54
- IllustratorTom Greensfelder
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