Summary Of All But My Life By Gerda Weissmann Klein

The memoir All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein shares her personal journey throughout holocaust and the hardships she faced during those six long years. The Germans attack on Poland was a “claimed ...defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced” of their statements (“Germans”). Therefore, fighting continues and Jewish people are held in concentration/ work camps serving Germans until they surrender in 1945. In this time, Gerda is taken away from her family, transported to four different work camps, and forced to do a variety of jobs in inhumane conditions. Whether it was a camp as unbearable as Marzdorf or a “good” camp like Bolkenhain, Gerda never lives a normal teenage life. Towards the end of the war, when Gerda believes