A Polish Jew records her experiences as a young girl during the Holocaust, including her struggle for survival in Nazi work camps, the destruction of her family, and the ordeal of a three-hundred-mile forced march during the winter of 1945, in a memoir that formed the basis of the documentary One Survivor Remembers. "
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"Soul searching and human . . . A moving personal testament to courage."--Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
"An unforgettable reading experience . . . All But My Life is one of the most beautifully written human documents I have ever read. In this respect it is as sensitive and 'disturbing' a story as is The Diary of Anne Frank."--Library Journal
"Gerda Weissmann Klein moves you, and not just because the story she can tell is so horrific. It is the passion with which she looked through the horror and found a heart-felt and basic goodness in humanity . . . All But My Life is filled with wonderful acts of decency and normalcy, even as she describes three years in labor camps and three months of a forced winter march from Germany to Czechoslovakia."--Royal Ford, The Boston Globe
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"An unforgettable reading experience . . . All But My Life is one of the most beautifully written human documents I have ever read. In this respect it is as sensitive and 'disturbing' a story as is The Diary of Anne Frank."--Library Journal
"Gerda Weissmann Klein moves you, and not just because the story she can tell is so horrific. It is the passion with which she looked through the horror and found a heart-felt and basic goodness in humanity . . . All But My Life is filled with wonderful acts of decency and normalcy, even as she describes three years in labor camps and three months of a forced winter march from Germany to Czechoslovakia."--Royal Ford, The Boston Globe
About the Author
Gerda Weissmann Klein was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1924, and now lives in Arizona with her husband, Kurt Klein, who as a U.S. Army lieutenant liberated Weissmann on May 7, 1945. The author of five books, she has received many awards and honorary degrees and has lectured throughout the country for the past forty-five years. One Survivor Remembers (a production of Home Box Office 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. She will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in early 2011.
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Gerda Weissmann Klein was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1924, and now lives in Arizona with her husband, Kurt Klein, who as a U.S. Army lieutenant liberated Weissmann on May 7, 1945. The author of five books, she has received many awards and honorary degrees and has lectured throughout the country for the past forty-five years. One Survivor Remembers (a production of Home Box Office 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. She will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in early 2011.
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I read this book very recently as part of my school system's summer reading program. I had expected it to be an intriguing and saddening story about a girl's experiences in the Holocaust, but I did not expect it to be so moving, inspirational, and relateable true story. This book opened myself, and my friends to what these women must have felt. The fact that Gerda was our age at the time of her captivity and was going through the exact same experiences that we were help us to understand what was going on and how she must have felt about personal problems and boys, and basically everything that teenage girls still go through. We realized how truly lucky we were to live our lives free and have all of our friends to go to when we need help, and not have to worry where and if we are having our next meal. I recommend this book to anyone, any age, and sex, any race. Although she is a teenage girl, anyone can profit from this book.
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This book deepy moved my soul,
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I could not put this book down. I was sorry when I finished reading it because I could have gone on forever with reading it. The things that Gerda Weissman Klein suffered, her deep thoughts, her gratefulness now for the small things that we take for granted such as a loaf of bread, an apple, clean sheets--all of these things made me realize how very grateful I am for just the plain things in my life. I feel so much and so sorry for what she had to go through, for the losses that she incurred. As a Jewish person myself, I identify with her and her story moved me to tears. I was horrified to read of the cold and calculating cruelty to which Gerda and her family and the Jewish people had to suffer, and to learn of the unbelievable cruel manner in which this systematic cold torture and cruelty was carried out. I recommend this book so highly. No one who reads it will be able to forget this deeply moving story.
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All I can say, is I could not hardly put this brilliantly written Holocaust Survivor book down.It is so fascinating, once again to see how she survived by her wits alone, at times. What a smart girl...takes you from girlhood to a few years later, then a brief synopsis of her present life.
I would highly recommend this book. She had to wear wooden shoes, too small for her, and tie rags onto her feet, starved, smacked around, beat up as well a time or two.I just simply loved this book, or I wouldnt have taken the time to recomment it to you all.Thank you , and have a great day shpping at the most wonderful place, Amazon.com!
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