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Gerda Weissmann

Gerda Weissmann. By: Jessica Vazquez. Childhood. born in 1924 in Bielsko, Poland began education as polish school girl but then became a catholic girl older brother (Arthur) loved and looked up to loved family and school (learning and reading) spending time in garden with flowers

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Gerda Weissmann

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  1. Gerda Weissmann By: Jessica Vazquez

  2. Childhood • born in 1924 in Bielsko, Poland • began education as polish school girl but then became a catholic girl • older brother (Arthur) loved and looked up to • loved family and school (learning and reading) • spending time in garden with flowers • 1939- was forced to live in basement of her own house (year and a half) • brother was sent away to work • parents (Julius and Helen) • after living in her basement, she was sent to live in a ghetto • 1945- separated from parents (who went to Auschwitz concentration camp) • while living in the basement, she met (Abek) she liked him and they dated but she did not want to marry him • Abek ended up dying in a concentration camp

  3. Prisoner • sent to Dulag (transit camp), then to labor camps (in Sosnowitz, Bolkenhain, Marzdorf, Landshut, and Gruenberg) • Bolkenhain being the best camp and Marzdorf the worst • 1945- inmates in work camp were sent on death march to Volary, Czech Republic (350 miles) • Gerda survived • May 1945- liberated by United States Army in Volary, Czech Republic (she weighed 68 pounds and hair was white) • Mr.. Weissmann worked digging ditches and Gerda in the clothing mill

  4. After Life • while recuperating, • met Kurt Klein (soldier in United States Army) and they fell in love1 • 945- became engaged in September • got married in Paris in 1946moved to Buffalo, New York and had three kids • involved in several charities and spoke about holocaust experience • 1998- Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation • 2002- Kurt Klein died wrote "All But My Life) • 2006- spoke to United Nations (part of International Day of Commemoration in memory of Holocaust survivors)

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