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Gerda Weissmann Klein

Author, historian, speaker and Holocaust survivor (1924-2022) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 97

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.

Gerda Weissmann Klein is read about 133 times a day, in 14 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 11 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 113 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom2011
48 Arizona Women

About this person

Weissmann married Kurt Klein (1920-2002) in 1946.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2022 · aged 97

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