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Title: All But My Life : A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein ISBN: 0-8090-1580-3 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 31 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.95 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All But My Life
Comment: All But My Life is a must-read book that every girl should read. This non-fiction story is about a young girl named Gerda Weissmann Klein, also the author, who lived during the Holocaust and World War II. She was born in Bielitz, a city in Poland. Gerda, a little girl, was sitting in her living room one day and she heard "Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler." She had never seen anyone in her town so afraid. Gerda noticed that signs started to appear everywhere. For example, No Jews or Dogs Allowed. Gerda was one of the innocent Jews that lived in her hometown.
First, the German police officers took her brother away. Then, the police officers made her mother, father, and her move into a basement. They had to gather up many things as possible and had to move down there. It was hard for them to gather up stuff because usually her dad was the strongest, but he could not pick much up. He could not pick much up because he suffered from a broken arm. Could you imagine gathering up all your life's precious things that you behold in a few minutes or you would be shot? Only the basement was the beginning.
The family was then transported to a ghetto where German soldiers ruled. There, Jews were divided into to groups of men and women. Children had to stay with their mothers if they told the SS man that they were an older age then they were. Gerda's dad went with the men to one concentration camp, while her mom and her went to another. Gerda's mom and her stayed into the same concentration camp for awhile.
From that camp, she was separated from her mom and put a cart with people her own age. One of the people on the cart she knew was her best friend. She saw mostly everything a Holocaust revisionist would deny. She saw gas chambers, whips, people killed, people shot into their grave, some of them included her friends she made, and crematories. Gerda always prayed every night for the war to be over.
The story takes you from one concentration camp to the next where Gerda moves. This is one of my favorite books I ever read. To find out what happens to her at the end, you will have to read it! Trust me, this book is a real page-turner.
Rating: 5
Summary: All But My Life
Comment: I read this book as a 7th grader because my sister said it was good but that was an understatement! This is the best book I have ever read in my whole life! I would really recomened this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Yet Another Moving Holocaust Memoir
Comment: Gerda Weissman was born in relative luxury in a Polish town in the 1920's. Virtually until the day the Nazis invade Poland in 1920, her life is filled with ease and happiness. Then, because the family is Jewish, tragedies begin in quick succession. Gerda's older brother is taken away by the Nazis, the three remaining family members (Gerda, her mother, and her father) must give up their home and live in the ghetto, and finally, most tragically of all, Gerda is separated from her parents. Never knowing where they went or even if they are alive, Gerda must spend the next five years of her life in German labor camps.
As I read this book, one aspect of it (and this aspect is in many Jewish Holocaust memoirs) continually astounded me. While the events Gerda writes about are totally inhumane and depressing, she somehow manages to find at least the smallest good thing about every experience in the book. She not only remembers the horrors of the camps, she remembers her true friends there and the camaraderie between the women. She not only recounts the tragic leaving of her brother, she writes of the legacy of courage he left her. And when the war is finally over, Gerda's writing tells us of sorrow and loss, yet also of the exciting and promising life ahead of her. It is, as always, refreshing and inspiring to read such an honest yet optimistic memoir. Written with grace and dignity, "All But My Life" is a well-done Holcaust memoir.
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Title: The Hours After : Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath by Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein ISBN: 0312263384 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 11 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Rena Kornreich Gelisssen, Heather Dune Macadam ISBN: 0807070718 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Jennifer Armstrong, Irene Gut Opdyke ISBN: 0385720327 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel ISBN: 0897333764 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman ISBN: 0553282182 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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