Title: I Have Walked a Thousand Miles Author: Gerda Weissmann Klein Genre:Non-Fiction Number of pages: 261 The book I Have Walked a Thousand Miles‚ by Gerda Weissmann Klein‚ is a very touching book‚ that almost made me come to tears. Through this book‚ you can tell the hardships that the Jews went through during the Holocaust. This book mainly focuses on a brave and strong thirtneen-year old girl named Elli‚ who is sent to Auschwitz with her family. She has to face many terrible challenges
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In the novel All But My Life‚ Gerda Weissmann faces many ways of oppression. In Bielitz‚ their town was invaded by the Germans‚ and that was when all of the heinous crimes against Jews were committed. Before they were deported to concentration camps‚ their rations were very‚ VERY strictly cut. They were given arm bands with a star of David‚ and those human beings with names and families were simply labeled JEW. They were forced to sell all of their precious belongings and move to the basement of
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trillions of people whom very few you have ever met or will ever meet. To have faith in humanity is to believe somehow that the chaos of this universe will eventually be resolved by those ahead of us in the timeline of what we call the future. Gerda Weissmann expressed her faith in humanity in an excerpt from her story. She did this by explaining why the Jews hadnâ t fought or rebelled against the Nazis during the Holocaust. They didnâ t fight back because they were astonished by the cruelty of what
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History 121 Book Analysis “All But My Life” February 15‚ 2013 All But My Life All But My Life is a memoir about a young Jewish girl‚ Gerda Weissmann‚ who was able to endure the hardships of World War II and the Holocaust. Gerda went through and saw more horrific things in the matter of a few years than any of us will ever have to face in our lifetimes. The fact that a girl this young and hopeless can withstand so much pain but yet contain so much strength should be an inspiration to all. Reading
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everything from Gerda; except her life. In the book All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein we learn about the holocaust from a woman’s perspective. Our story begins on September 3‚1939. Gerda and the Weissmann family live in Bielitz‚ Poland. Gerda sees her neighbors rejoicing at the appearance of the Nazi’s. Gerda’s Father is ill and they mustn’t create panic. The Nazi’s start creating laws for the jews and punishing them. Gerda’s father hears about what’s happening in Bielitz and encourages Gerda and her
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The desire for power‚ fear‚ and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life‚ the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition‚ Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female inmates were treated than male. In Wiesel’s Night‚ he discusses his experience of being
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Melanie Klien and Psychology 1- Melanie Klein claimed that in their earliest stages of infantile psychic life‚ they go through a complete development‚ through certain position. There are two major positions‚ the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position. The paranoid-schizoid position is the earlier position‚ whereby if a child’s life environment and raising are adequate‚ they will successfully progress to the subsequent position: the depressive position. The transformation of the
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make life difficult for German Jews‚ they were called the Nuremberg laws‚ and they lasted from 1935-1939. Men were killed off or sent to work‚ all ages‚ young and old. Through all the chaos and killing‚ Gerda Weissman Klein had survived to tell her story about her time during the Holocaust. Gerda was born on May 8‚ 1924‚ in
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Gerda Weismann remembers when the war started. She heard shooting coming coming from the roof. Her family moved into the basement of their home to hide. There was no water‚ electricity‚ heating‚ or air conditioning. Her brother was forced into a labor camp shortly after the war started. Gerda says the worst day of her life was on June 28th 1942‚ it was the last day she saw her father. When she was taken to a concentration camp her and her mom were separated. She was on a truck leaving her mother
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The biography piece is called “All But My Life” and the author is Gerda Weissman Klein. The piece we are given is about a girl and her family when World War 2 started to happen and about how life just suddenly stopped and turned horrid with bombs‚ gunfire and explosions‚and how her father was stricken by an illness‚ while all this is happening. Her beloved town was once “gay” and “sparkling” ‚but it had turned frantic‚ her entire country was in fear and what was once beautiful was all gone‚ so
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