# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerda-weissmann-klein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:28.222Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerda-weissmann-klein"
name: "Gerda Weissmann Klein"
slug: "gerda-weissmann-klein"
description: "Gerda Weissmann Klein was a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All But My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. Weissmann married Kurt Klein (1920–2002) in 1946."
tagline: "Author, historian, speaker and Holocaust survivor (1924–2022)"
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gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-05-08"
deathDate: "2022-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump