Gerda Weissmann Klein All But My Life

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“I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.” Something said by Gerda Weissmann Klein in her book, “All But My Life.” During World War 2 there were many tragic deaths. All these deaths were caused by the Holocaust. Many people died and a few only survived. One of those survivors is Gerda Weissmann Klein. All that Gerda went through has made her stronger throughout the years. She has many accomplishments and has moved on. During the Holocaust she survived alone without any family, she was a strong independent woman during that time and yet she never gave up on the faith of living and surviving. She is now 93 and she shares her story all around the globe.

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She was born in Bielsko Poland. She was the second child. Before the invasion, she remembers her childhood being idyllic. As any other kid, she attended public school. Later her parents moved her to a Catholic School for girls. The invasion later arose all over and at the age of 15, the Germans invaded her home. From that moment her life changed she could not do things that she would like to do. When the invasion started she had to live in her home but, in the basement of her house. A year has passed and Gerda and her family were still living in her basement. Gerda got to live her childhood for a while until the Germans invaded. From that day on she had to live her life in terror for several

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