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Gerda Weissmann Klein - introduction (Narrator), Gerda Weissmann Klein (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator),

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All but My Life is the basis for the Academy Award-winning documentary from HBO, One Survivor Remembers. This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Gerda takes us on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years, Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.

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6 hours and 29 minutes
Author

Gerda Weissmann Klein
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Gerda Weissmann Klein - introduction, see all
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December 16, 1999
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English
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Penguin Audio
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B000OYDN1U
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Abridged
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Listening Length	6 hours and 29 minutes
Author	Gerda Weissmann Klein
Narrator	Gerda Weissmann Klein - introduction, Barbara Rosenblat
Audible.com Release Date	December 16, 1999
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Abridged
Language	English
ASIN	B000OYDN1U
Best Sellers Rank	#54,398 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #4,913 in Biographies & Memoirs (Audible Books & Originals) #7,714 in Memoirs (Books)

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Gerda, my neighbor

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2017

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Gerda, at the age of 94 lives across the hall from me. This book tells the story that she does not care to talk about. I now understand why. She is an inspiration to all who know her now and who see the gentle grace that she shares with so many dear friends, family and neighbors. I am sure that all who read about Gerda will shed a tear or two of their own.

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Aubry Spencer

Wonderful Memoir!

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2018

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I first read this book in middle school and since then it has been my favorite book, I've probably read it at least 10 times. Gerda does such a wonderful job walking you through her life, her struggles and of course her survival of the Holocaust. What I love the most about this book is that even when Gerda is describing the most awful and heartbreaking moments, you never want to stop reading. I personally find a lot of spiritual moments in this book and often read it while flying as a way to calm my nerves. I cannot recommend this book enough; whether you're someone who reads many memoirs or not, this one is one of a kind. Gerda's story always makes me thankful that she shared her life with the world.

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Michelle Boytim

A memoir of the Holocaust and finding life again

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2020

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Gerda Weissmann Klein tells of her experiences during WWII at the hands of the Nazis. She grew up in Poland and when the Nazis invaded in 1939, her life changed forever. First her family was allowed to live in the basement of their home, with diminishing rations. But soon all of the Jews were shipped out to camps and she was separated from her parents. Her brother, who had left Poland earlier, had a fate unknown to her. She details the work camps that she went to, with the first having reasonable people overseeing them, where they worked as seamstresses, but when that camp shut down, each camp grew worse and she held on as “all but her life” was taken from her. She had a young man who loved her almost to obsession, and he made great sacrifices to be near her, but she was troubled in that she did not feel she could fully reciprocate his feelings for her. As the war came to a close, the remaining prisoners were forced into a deadly and prolonged march across the countryside until they were liberated by the American forces. One of the soldiers took a particular care for her and spent as much time as he could to see her during her prolonged recovery. As she made steps to regain her health, she found herself falling in love and finding a path forward in life without her friends, family, and home, to a new hope and a new life.

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Judith F. Maclean

I so enjoyed Gerda Weissmann Klein's book

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015

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I so enjoyed Gerda Weissmann Klein's book. All the horrors of the Holocaust, all the personal loss she endured couldn't destroy her spirit. She persevered over unwinnable odds. When she was as close as you could possibly get to death by starvation and deprivation, her life was spared. The way she met her husband, was, in itself, against all odds. This book is not fiction, and I kept having to remind myself that this woman, who was in her teens when the Nazi's destroyed her family and her world, and placed her in the first of several concentration camps, not only survived but went on to live a long, happy and productive life. To me, Gerda Weissmann Klein is a truly remarkable woman. I cried more than once as I read her story. I've spent a good deal of my life reading about the Holocaust, and I still cannot understand how or why the Nazi's did what they did, to Gerda Weissmann Klein, or the world. Nothing in my safe, comfortable life prepared my for the evil of the Nazi's. Perhaps that's why I feel compelled to read so many books about World War II. But no matter how many I read, I don't seem to be able to understand the Nazi's hate and complete disregard towards humanity. The world is still filled with too much hatred, and I believe that Gerda Weissmann Klein's book demonstrates the dangers to a world controlled by hate and violence. We see it all around the world, including in our own country. I would hope that we will eventually learn that hate is not the way, and possibly avoid another Hitler and another World War.

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chanalee, the challah fairy

well written memoir

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019

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the memoir was written a few years after liberation....there was little about the book that was made up. this is the real thing....when i started reading the book, I was almost excited that the writer had a regular childhood and was not met with similar end to so many of the other memoirs i read....and then .....it was a very difficult book to read....I was sitting in my chair spellbound and wondering....how could one person endure this torturous life? how did she survive? why? I am well aware that had the war lasted another week...everyone would have died!!! including my father who was liberated at the age of 11-1/2 from Bergen Belsen, an orphan with no parents! seventy five years later....and I still cannot come to grips with any of it!!!

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A.Corley

Amazing memoir, an even more amazing teenager who saw and survived horrors no human should ever have to, a true hero.

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2018

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This is a story of a young teenage girl who lived and survived the horrors of the Holocaust. It's told with great clarity and of course it has parts that are difficult to read, but the main thing that rings true for me in this book is love will always conquer evil. It may take sometime, but this girl lost everything but her life, just as the title states, and yet, I hear nothing but gratitude, love, courage and integrity after everything she endured. Thank you for sharing memories that I know could not be easy to relive. It was an honor to read this book. A. Corley

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Sandy Vale

and I loved the hints about what the future held

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2017

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I have read and re read this book and it never lets me leave without deep thought. That sounds a bit grandiose, but please don't judge this incredibly well written book by the fool who read it. This woman lived through hell and her writing is astounding. It flows and is a day by day account of her experience, and I loved the hints about what the future held. She felt she owed her comrades who could no longer speak a voice, and she told their stories with respect and authenticity. For those who believe that the Holocaust happened, and for those who don't....I can't recommend this book highly enough.

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Khad

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2016

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I have purchased many of these books giving accounts of survival in the most terrible of circumstances. All are heartbreaking and thought provoking but not all well told. This is an exception as the story is very well told giving an insight into the suffering of these unfortunates. It is hard to imaging the hardship they suffered but the author managed to convey the story without over sentimentality and I very much enjoyed (if that is possible) this survival story

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Sara

I loved this book. Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2021

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Fantastic book

Everywhere girl

One of my best reads. Of course tragic but also triumph as ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2015

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I have purchased this about 12 times. I always give them away and have read it myself three times. Incredible true account. One of my best reads. Of course tragic but also triumph as she survived. Lovely ending. She married the soldier that liberated her.

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claudiakeston

Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2013

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Lovely book
And sad
I knew the lady who wrote it

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Sverre Svendsen

A heartrending Holocaust account

Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2016

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A heartrending account of a young German-Silesian Jewish woman’s life from 1939 to 1945. The first three years of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and Poland brings persecution, deprivation and deportations to Gerda Weismann’s family, and the local Jewish community. By 1942 her family has been dispersed and Gerda transported to perform forced labor in a weaving mill. Conditions are inhumane and even lethal. This sets the tormented direction for Gerda’s life for the following three years, in numerous locations.

I have read a number of books by or related to the hideous plight of Holocaust victims and those few who were fortunate survivors. This is one of the most personally poignant. Weismann’s memoir is special in that she consistently shares her mental and inner turmoil in great detail. No one with a heart and feelings can read this book without sharing the author’s torturous agonies, including the reduplicated flashbacks which have become embedded in her psyche. The book’s Epilogue gives the book a consummate redemptive conclusion.

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