All But My Life

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  1. ^ Close up from Bielsko elementary school class photo, 1935. Courtesy of classmate Lucia Schwarzfuks Matzner who also appears in the photo, Holocaust Survivor, later an adult friend.
  2. ^ Personal Histories: Gerda Weissmann Klein and Kurt Klein Archived August 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
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  4. ^ Klein, Gerda Weissmann (1995). All But My Life (A new, expanded ed.). New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 0809024608.
  5. ^ Gerda Weissmann Klein's Archived August 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine testimony at "THE DEATH MARCH TO VOLARY" - an exhibition at Yad Vashem website
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  7. ^ "Kurt Klein Oral History Interview". www.c-span.org. C-SPAN.org. October 11, 1990. Retrieved April 9, 2022. Kurt Klein talked about his early life in Germany, the rise of Nazi persecution of the Jews, his escape to the United States and his family's efforts to rescue his parents, who ultimately perished at the Auschwitz concentration camp. ...
  8. ^ "Kurt Klein HUMANITARIAN, PUBLIC SPEAKER, FORMER REFUGEE, US MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICER, 'RITCHIE BOY.' 1920-2002". jewishbuffalohistory.org. Jewish Buffalo History Center. November 9, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2022. Kurt Klein was born in Walldorf, near Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany to parents, Alice and Ludwig Klein on July 2, 1920. ... Alice and Ludwig were forcibly deported and taken 'east' to Auschwitz where both were murdered, although their children did not learn of this fate until after the war ended.
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  10. ^ a b c d e Anderson, Dale (April 7, 2022). "Gerda Weissmann Klein, 97, Holocaust survivor who turned horror into compassion". Buffalo News. Retrieved April 10, 2022. One of the soldiers was Lt. Kurt Klein, who had escaped from prewar Germany as a teen. ... As she recovered, they became engaged and were married in Paris on June 18, 1946. Once her visa was approved, she came to join him in Buffalo, his adopted home. ... They made a home on East Hazeltine Avenue in Kenmore and raised three children. Mrs. Klein was active in Temple Beth Zion and for 17 years wrote a column, "Stories for Young Readers," in The Buffalo News. Her husband, a printer, was president and owner of Kiesling-Klein Printing Co. ... She died April 3 after a period of declining health at her home in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. ... When her husband retired, they moved to Arizona to be near their children and grandchildren. ... She received many honors, including the International Lion of Judah Award in Jerusalem in 1996. President Clinton appointed her to the Holocaust Museum's Governing Council. Last year she was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Survivors include two daughters, Vivian Ullman and Leslie Simon; a son, James; eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Her husband Kurt died in 2002.
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  15. ^ Good, Martin (April 15, 2014). "The Windsor Caper". Medium. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
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