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My parents didn't move. They stood frozen, like people caught in an old photograph. As the ship picked up speed, moving down the river, the space between us grew wider and I watched as my parents and Mina got smaller and smaller.

A feeling of sadness rushed through me, starting in my stomach, then spreading all over my body, making me heavy and dizzy. I was no longer inside myself; instead, I had left my body to watch the scene from above and I saw that nothing would ever be right again. My family was gone; my childhood was over.

My mouth opened. If I screamed, maybe everything would stop-the ship, the blue water, even Hitler. I opened my mouth wider, then as wide as I could, but nothing happened. I couldn't make a sound. I fell to my knees on the deck and clung to my parents with my eyes. I watched as they turned into tiny dots. Finally, they were nothing, dissolved in the distance.

Now, all I could see was the blue.

Editorial Reviews

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Chapman, who wrote about her family's Holocaust ordeal in the adult book Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust, assumes the voice of her mother, Edith, who at age 12 is sent by her Jewish parents from increasingly anti-Semitic Germany to live in America with relatives. Edith's plaintive narration describes her father's mounting fear of the Nazis (“suddenly, we were filth, Jews polluting the village,”) and her mother's increasing detachment. The story of Edith's ocean voyage to America provides some light moments; without her parents around, Edith's fears and anxiety are always evident, but her interactions with other young Jewish emigrants are touchingly childlike, such as when they play hide-and-seek onboard. In Chicago, Edith is met by a disdainful aunt who treats her like a servant and classmates who keep their distance. Though her story reads more like a memoir than a novel, Chapman captures a plucky determination in Edith that readers will find endearing. There is no Cinderella ending for Edith, but the hope she finds in Jewish ballplayer Hank Greenberg and the honesty in her story make this historical fiction well worth reading. Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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In 1938 Edith Westerfeld is twelve years old when her family puts her on a ship in Bremen,Germany that carries her to the Deutchland, an oceanliner that transports her to New York City. From there, all alone, she is put on a train to Chicago, Illinois where she lives with her father's brother, his wife, and their teenage8 daughter. Edith is treated more like a servant than part of their family, but she strives to learn English, do all of the work demanded by her aunt, do well in school, and save money to send her parents in the hope that they will be able to join her. From having to start with first grade at school, to the anti-Semitic attitudes that abound even in America, Edith struggles in this new country but finds solace in walks to the shores of Lake Michigan, in baseball's Hank Greenberg, and in the public library where she escapes into books. Shattered by a letter informing her of the deaths of her parents, she realizes she must carry on with life despite her losses. Author Chapman tells readers in an introductory note that this historical fiction work is based on an American rescue operation named "the One Thousand Children," which her own mother was a part of, in order to give voice to another group of Holocaust victims. Edith's story is compelling and interesting, shedding light on a young immigrant's fears, confusion, and loss. This is a superb addition to any Holocaust or American History collection. Students will be moved by Edith's story. Reviewer: Mary Ann Darby
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Based on the true story of Edith "Tiddy" Westerfeld, the author's mother, and part of the American rescue operation "The One Thousand Children" during World War II, this novel gives voice to many children sent alone to a new country by their parents, intent on their survival. In 1938, twelve-year-old Tiddy is sent from a small town in Germany to her Onkel Jakob in Chicago. Chapman gives voice to the immigrant children who were forced to mature early, facing hardships and changes. Coming to live with a family that does not want her, worrying about family left behind, all Tiddy can do is keep trying and hoping. While there is no happy ending, Edith begins to adapt to her new life, although the family, including her parents, left behind in Germany die in concentration camps. Children and young adults reading this historical fiction will see an important perspective on the Holocaust, that of a Jewish child exiled to freedom, dealing with a new life while worrying about the old. Children who feel like they do not fit in, immigrants, and those who yearn to know more about what the United States did and did not do to help the Jews and others targeted by the Nazis will all benefit from this work. Reviewer: Sara Rofofsky Marcus
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Gr 5–9—Tiddy, 12, can't understand why she is being forced to leave her beloved family to go and live in a strange land. By 1938, anti-Semitism has taken hold in Germany and the Westerfields, "an old and once respected Jewish family of Stockstadt," are suddenly "filthy Jews." Grandmother refuses to leave, but Vati and Mutti fear for the lives of their daughters, so they send Betty to a family in Chicago. A year later Tiddy is put on a ship to America to live with her Onkel Jacob. She soon finds that her aunt and cousin do not want her there, and that her sister lives too far away to visit often. From her first day in her new home and school, Tiddy is stripped of her identity and connection to her homeland. She is horrified when Aunt Mildred throws away her beautiful handmade blouse. She faces the humiliation of being placed in first grade at the age of 12 because she can't speak English. The final cord is severed when her parents die in a concentration camp. The author has "given voice" to her mother, Edith Westerfield, in this fictionalized account of her immigration experience. In doing so, Chapman has created an engaging memoirlike novel.—Wendy Scalfaro, G. Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NY
Kirkus Reviews
Most Holocaust stories for children focus on the inhumanity that took place in European countries; fewer deal with the severe hardships experienced by children sent to America and their struggles to assimilate into a foreign culture. Based on the experiences of the author's mother as part of the One Thousand Children project, this empathetic historical novel rings with authenticity. Edith Westerfeld is 12 when her parents send her from their German home to America. Almost half of the story takes place aboard the ship as she and the other lonely refugee children turn to each other to ease their fears. Life in Chicago is filled with discrimination; even her aunt treats her like a servant. The one bright spot is following Hank Greenberg's baseball career, but wearing her mother's Star of David doesn't keep him from being drafted or bring her parents to America (they die in concentration camps). The title's significance is revealed on the last page: As Edith mourns the loss of everything, she realizes that to honor her parents she must be willing to live. Moving. (Historical fiction. 10-13)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374177447
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 3/16/2010
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 221,278
  • Age range: 10 - 14 Years
  • Lexile: 810L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Fern Schumer Chapman is the author of Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Daughter’s Journey to Reclaim the Past, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She lives in northern Illinois.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

1 Nobody told Me Anything 3

2 All I Could See was the blue 24

3 But I Want to Go to the Zoo 36

4 Seasick 48

5 This is "Goodbye" 68

6 Willkommen In Amerika 85

7 You Bathe on Tuesdays and Thursdays 96

8 Baby Bear's Chair 112

9 Step on a Crack 123

10 Don't Call Me Julius! 137

11 Hankus Pankus 145

12 I Took You In 153

13 Change! 162

14 Labeled 175

15 What Did You Expect? 182

16 We Must Live 191

Afterword 203

Acknowledgments 207

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  • Posted June 27, 2011

    Makes you cry

    I actually got this book from the library and i loved it sooo much anyone will love this bok i cried and felt her pain it was like i knew her it was just an amazing book that will touch your heart

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2012

    HOLLICOST

    This story i chose to read this book for La class becuase we had to read a book on the hollocost and i luv this book i wish the ful version was free immaalmost done with the one in rl and i don't know if its gonna be sad but peoplsay it is its very interesting i couldkeep on reading

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 11, 2012

    It does make you want to cry and then you do cry

    I feal like I am tiddy

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  • Posted March 21, 2010

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    An untold story

    Is It Night or Day? raises awareness about a rarely discussed topic, child-immigrants assimilating into American culture. Edith, who represents scores of child-immigrants, suffers with waves of confusion and emptiness. Classmates bully her while she is acclimating into American classrooms. Prejudice hurts Edith many times over. She grapples with a greater identity crisis than before leaving her motherland. She is forced to ask herself questions that plague many adolescents: Who am I? Do I belong? Will I ever be loved again?

    Fern Schumer Chapman's Is It Night or Day? and her memoir, Motherland, capture childhood trauma and the legacy that results. Both are important works that appeal to young adults and adults. They raise interesting topics for book clubs and are a valuable addition to school curriculums.

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