Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Holocaust survivor that was born in Bielsko, Holand. She went through the misery of knowing what pain and suffering is. When she was 15, the Germans took over Bielsko and that is when everything started happening. On April nineteenth of 1942, the Jews were asked to move to the ghetto. Then they were forced to work in work camps and Gerda and her parents got separated. Later she went to a concentration camp, a 5 month death march. Stating of what this teenager (now woman)
Gerda Weissmann, Kurt Klein, and families endured horrible things under Nazi rule and throughout World War II; such as: famine, work labor, and a great deal of loss. Gerda’s memoir All But My Life and Kurt’s appearance in America and the Holocaust explain the hardships of their young lives and German Jews. One was able to escape, one was not; one lost everything, the other living with a brother and sister in a new and safe place. The couples’ stories are individually unique, and each deal with different
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
success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor, saw hope in people and her future of surviving. The theme in Gerda Weissmann Klein’s All But My Life illustrates how one can stay hopeful in a world full of mistreatment through the use of figurative language, internal monologue, and dialogue. The hope to survive is shown through the author’s use of figurative language. For example, Gerda listening to her parents’ conversation about her father leaving
written by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Gerda told the story of her grueling experiences she had during the Holocaust. “My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis” (Weissmann 250). This quote kind of stood out to me a bit because of a personal experience I have had. Obviously girls can be
surviving the Holocaust, Gerda Weissmann Klein reflected, “My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis” (Klein 250). Gerda Weissmann Klein’s memoir All But My Life detailed the hardships Klein and Jews had to endure during World War II. In the year 1939, the Nazi Party invaded Poland; Klein was separated from her family and was obliged to endure the horrific conditions of various concentration camps. Klein underwent a horrendous
Gerda Weissmann Klein’s personal account of her experiences during Germany’s invasion of Poland and of the Holocaust illustrated some of the struggles of young Jewish women at the time in their endeavors to survive. Weissmann Klein’s recount of her experiences began on September 3, 1939, at her home in the town of Bielitz, Poland, just after Nazi troops began to arrive and immediately enforce their policies on Polish Jews. On that night, which had only been the beginning for her and her family, Jews
Gerda Weissmann Klein is many things. She is a mother. She is a grandmother. She is a wife, although a widow now. She is a Jew. She is a victim of a terrible tragedy. She is a survivor, a warrior, a fighter. Above all else, she is tragically human. She is a person who has suffered enough for a million lifetimes, but she is a person who has never lost hope. She is not somebody who can be classified by a single term. The only thing to be said about her is that she is undeniably herself. She is Gerda
really good at heart.” I believe that this quote, which is saying that some people do bad things but that does not mean they are bad people, many are doing things out of fright, hoping it will save their lives, is very true. All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein which is about a Jewish family, mainly on the little girl in the family who goes through the unimaginable during the Holocaust, popped into mind when I heard the quote. Also two short stories called “Tiengen” by Maurice Meier and “Rescuers”
by Betty Smith and in the memoir All but My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein. From the moment Francie Nolan and Gerda Weissmann were born, there was a twinkle of hope in both of their eyes. They spent their days dreaming and wondering what the world was like outside of Francie’s hometown Brooklyn, and Gerda’s hometown Bielitz. The two girls possessed carefree childhoods with their families and were loved deeply by them. The older Francie and Gerda had grown, the clearer the world had become to them
Primo Levi, an Italian Jew, was sent to Auschwitz where he endured years of the Nazi’s brutality and the horrific images that followed. Art Spiegelman’s Maus II tells the story of how his father, Vladek Spiegelman, survived the war. While Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her own journey in which World War II had taken her. Though these three authors describe very horrific, disgusting, and heartbreaking scenes from their experiences, their books end similarly,
In addition a woman named Gerda Weissmann Klein did not lose faith. She is a Holocaust survivor who wrote her story in her book All But My Life. She did not stay strong for the same reasons as Frankl. “My eyes remained dry. I felt my features turn stony. “‘Now I have to live,’ I said to myself, ‘because I am alone and nothing can hurt me any more’” (All But My Life: Important Quotes Explained). Elie Wiesel lost all will to live whenever his father died, however, Klein viewed it as a reason to stop