Gerda Weissmann Klein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gerda Weissmann Klein

Nazi concentration camp survivor

Date of Birth: 08-May-1924

Place of Birth: Bielsko-Biała, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gerda Weissmann Klein (born Gerda Weissmann, May 8, 1924, Bielsko, Poland) is a Polish 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.
She married Kurt Klein (1920–2002) in 1946.
The Kleins became advocates of Holocaust education and human rights, dedicating most of their lives to promoting tolerance and community service.
A naturalized U.S.
citizen, Gerda Weissmann Klein also founded Citizenship Counts, a nonprofit organization that champions the value and responsibilities of American citizenship.
She has served on the governing board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which features her testimony in a permanent exhibit.
On February 15, 2011, Klein was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
In 2013, she published a children's adventure story called The Windsor Caper, which had remained hidden away since the 1980s, when it was a weekly serial in The Buffalo News.