Gerda Weissmann Klein was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1924. She survived internment in several concentration camps and a death march during World War II. She is a writer and a human rights activist. The author of many books, she has received many awards and honorary degrees and has lectured throughout the country for more than 45 years. One Survivor Remembers (a production of HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), winner of an Emmy Award and the Academy Award for documentary short subject, was based on All But My Life, her autobiographical account of the Holocaust. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in early 2011.
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All but My Life tells the haunting story of Gerda Weissman Klein’s experience under the Nazi regime. Taken from her home in Bielitz, Poland, and sent to German labor camps, Gerda survived and was liberated by American troops. In her memoir, Klein ta... SEE MORE