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Is it night or day? / Fern Schumer Chapman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PZ7.C3667 Is 2010

Overview

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.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Chapman, Fern Schumer.
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
1003
Locale: Germany
United States
Chicago (Ill.)
Edition: First edition
Notes: "Melanie Kroupa Books."

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
ISBN: 9780374177447
0374177449
Physical Description: 205 pages ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jewish refugees--Fiction. Jews--Germany--Fiction. Jews--United States--Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Fiction. Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Fiction. Fiction.

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