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Gerda Weissmann Klein : ウィキペディア英語版 | Gerda Weissmann Klein
Gerda Weissmann Klein (born Gerda Weissmann, May 8, 1924, Bielsko, Poland) is 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. She married to 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. ==Early life== Born in 1924 in Bielsko (now Bielsko-Biała), Poland, a town known for its textile industry, Gerda Weissmann was educated first in public school and then in a Catholic school for girls. She was one of two children born to a middle-class Jewish family;〔(Personal Histories: Gerda Weissmann Klein and Kurt Klein ), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2013-06-15.〕 her father, Julius Weissmann, was a business executive, and her mother, Helene (née Mueckenbrunn), was a homemaker.〔Gerda Weissmann Klein, ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale Literary Databases 2002〕
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