

All but My Life
Author: Gerda Weissmann Klein
Narrator: Grace Conlin
Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/20/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Gerda Weissmann Klein
Narrator: Grace Conlin
Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/20/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Gerda Weissmann Klein was born in Bielsko, Poland, in 1924, and now lives in Arizona. Her husband, Kurt Klein, as a US Army lieutenant liberated Weissmann on May 7, 1945. The author of five books, she has received many awards and honorary degrees and has lectured throughout the country for the past forty-five years. Kurt and Gerda are the authors of The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath. One Survivor Remembers, winner of an Emmy Award and the Academy Award for documentary short subject, was based on All but My Life.
The artistry and vitality and heart with which Gerda Weissmann Klein brings to life her experiences as a young Polish Jewish girl during the Holocaust is nothing short of extraordinary. This is as moving and heartbreaking and life affirming as any book I’ve ever read. And perhaps its greatest triump......more
In this fascinating volume Gerda Weissmann talks about her experiences during the holocaust from the age of 15 to 20. She tells of three years in a labour camp , and three years of a forced winter march from Poland to Czechoslovakia. What makes this book remarkable is the decency and love that sustain......more
This is my all time favorite book because what it did for me during a very difficult time in my life. I was struggling with a horrible case of postpartum depression and, somehow, I came across this book that changed my life. I can never again TRULY feel sorry for myself. The trials I have endured are......more