Motherland: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past

By: Fern Schumer Chapman

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Synopsis: One woman's moving story of her journey with her mother to find their past and the tragedy that haunts it. In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents--before being killed by the Nazis--sent her from Germany to live with relatives in America. Fifty-four years later, Edith decided that it was time, with her grown daughter Fern, to revisit the town she had left so many years before. For Edith the trip was a chance to reconnect and reconcile with her past; for Fern it was a chance to learn what lay behind her mother's silent grief. On their journey, Fern and her mother shared many extraordinary encounters with the townspeople and--more importantly--with one another, closing the divide that had long stood between them.