All but My Life

Summary: 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 Gerda 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 Holocaus...t Memorial Museum), winner of an Emmy Award and the Academy Award Rfor documentary short subject, was based on All But My Life. [read more]