Gerda Weissmann Klein, who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and subject of a 1995 Oscar-and-Emmy winning film, died yest…
Born in 1924, Weissmann Klein was sent to Nazi forced-labor camps after the Germans occupied her native Poland. Shuffled through three different camps, she almost died from overwork. As Allied troops advanced, Weissmann Klein was one of 4,000 women sent on a forced death march away from liberation. The group marched through Poland, Germany and what is now the Czech Republic. While she survived the war, both of her parents and her brother died during the Holocaust.
On their behalf I wish to thank you for honoring their memory, and you cannot do it in any better way than when you return to your homes tonight to realize that each of you who know the joy of freedom are winners.to the National Film Registry. In 2005, the film was made available to educators as a part of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program. It became one of the program’s most popular offerings and was viewed by tens of millions of students, according to Antholis.
“When we made the film, the genocidal wars in Bosnia and Rwanda raged,” the piece reads. “Our hope was that this film would communicate to future generations the tragic consequences of intolerance, in a way that statistics and the dehumanizing footage of genocide cannot.”
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