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asday515 OP t1_j1cudvw wrote

Highly recommend starting from the beginning and giving her full story a listen. Its definitely worth watching all the way through.

Here's another interesting bit of info on her (from her Wikipedia page):

"[Her mother] Helene Weissman was forced into a group slated for a death camp; Gerda, deemed fit for work, was sent to a labor camp. As she and others boarded trucks, Gerda jumped out in a frantic effort to reunite with her mother. According to Weissmann Klein's account, Moshe Merin, head of the local Jewish Council Judenrat, threw her back in her truck, saying 'You are too young to die.'"

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rangda t1_j1cxydr wrote

I only intended to watch the part you linked but watched til the end. What an ending too.
There’s something to be said about her and Klein finding lifelong love at the end of all that unimaginable grief and hardship.

I don’t usually watch Holocaust documentaries these days because they are just so heavy and brutal but it feels like occasionally checking in with this very very recent horror is good perspective.

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lingh0e t1_j1fknrb wrote

My 6th grade lit teacher read her book to the class. I'd heard of the holocaust before that, but I had never really heard an direct accounts of it. It made quite an impact on the entire class.

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