All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein\'s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
It introduces them to last century\'s terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome..
Gerda\'s beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone.
Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors.
In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love.
Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity.
By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead.
Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of all but her life.
Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps.
Gerda\'s serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939.
From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein\'s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty
