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"I Survived to Love Again" — The Story of Gerda Weissmann Klein, the Holocaust Survivor Who Spent a Lifetime Teaching America to Choose Love Over Hate

"I Survived to Love Again" — The Story of Gerda Weissmann Klein, the Holocaust Survivor Who Spent a Lifetime Teaching America to Choose Love Over Hate

Gerda Weissmann Klein survived six Nazi labor camps and a 350-mile death march, lost her entire family, and then spent more than fifty years crossing America to teach schoolchildren that one act of kindness can outweigh a thousand acts of cruelty. Her story — from liberation by the American soldier she would marry, to the Academy Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom — is one of the most extraordinary journeys from darkness to light in American history.

Oct 8, 2026