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A moving personal testament to courage. Author, historian, and speaker, Gerda Weissman Klien has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful story about surviving the Holocaust. Her uplifting presentations take audiences through one of the darkest eras of our world's history. In 1939, 15 year-old Gerda Weissman Klein's life would change forever as German troops invaded her home in Beilsko, Poland. he was cruelly separated from her parents and sent to a slave-labor camp. This day would be forever ingrained in Gerda's memory as it was the last time she would ever see her family again. Never losing hope, Klein would spend the next three years in a succession of slave-labor camps, until she was forced to walk in a 350-mile death march in which 2,000 women were subjected to exposure, starvation, and arbitrary execution. Despite such atrocities, Klein never lost the will to survive. Klein's account of living through the Holocaust . . . FULL BIO PAGE |
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Speech Topics |
Diversity, Legends, Overcoming Adversity | |
Travels From |
Arizona | |
Price |
$5,000 - $7,500 | |
Blog |
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Sample Talks |
Diversity, Legends, Overcoming Adversity | |