Gerda and Kurt Klein describe liberation

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Uploaded by on Feb 4, 2011

In this short video, Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein and her husband, Kurt Klein, share their experiences of liberation and meeting for the first time.

Gerda was born to a Jewish middle-class family in Bielsko, Poland. In 1942, she was deported to work in a textile mill in Bolkenhain, Silesia. Gerda was later sent to forced labor camps in Marzdorf, Landshut, and Gruenberg. She was liberated by the U.S. Army in May 1945. She met her husband when he and his troop liberated her and other women. She emigrated to the United States in 1946.

Learn more about Gerda: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/klein/.

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  • man applauses goes out to gerda weissmann..dont know how you felt really on the inside

  • amazing. Thank you ushmm

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