| LC control no. | n 81127609 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-2022 |
| Variant(s) | Ḳlain, Gerdah, 1924-2022 קליין, גרדה, 1924-2022 |
| Other standard no. | Q536479 |
| Associated country | Poland United States |
| Located | Arizona Buffalo (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1924-05-08 |
| Death date | 2022-04-03 |
| Place of birth | Bielsko-Biała (Poland) |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | All but my life, 1957. ha-Ṿered ha-kaḥol, 1980: t.p. (Gerdah Ḳlain) t.p. verso (Gerda Klein [in rom.]) All but my life, 2019: title page (by Gerda Weissman Klein) back cover (born in Bielitz, Poland in 1924; lives in Arizona) Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: pages 91-92 (Gerda Weissmann Klein; one of the first women to have her Holocaust memoir published. Born on May 8, 1924. Was deported to the camp at Sosnowitz shortly after her eighteenth birthday [in 1942] and was sent from camp to camp until her liberation on May 6, 1945. Among her liberators was a US solider who would become her husband, with whom she settled in Buffalo, N.Y.) Deadline, viewed December 28, 2023: Gerda Weissmann Klein Dies: Holocaust Survivor, Presidential Medal Of Freedom Recipient And Subject Of Oscar-Winning Film One Survivor Remembers, Was 97; published April 4, 2022 (Gerda Weissmann Klein, who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and subject of a 1995 Oscar-and-Emmy winning film, died yesterday according to that film's director, Kary Antholis. Born in 1924, Weissmann Klein was sent to Nazi forced-labor camps after the Germans occupied her native Poland. Shuffled through three different camps, she almost died from overwork. Weissmann Klein was eventually liberated by American forces. She married Kurt Klein, a soldier, and emigrated to the United States. They had three children.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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