One Survivor Remembers: A Note to Students

Students-
In class this week, we read an excerpt of "All But My Life" and watched the heart-breaking and inspiring video "One Survivor Remembers." In the memoir and award-winning video, Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her harrowing experience as a Jewish girl separated from her family and forced into slave labor in a Nazi work camp.  She also speaks of the loss of her close friends on a death march, and of her ultimate survival and liberation.

There are several "primary documents" that will enrich your understanding of Mrs. Klein's story, and of the Holocaust.  PRIMARY DOCUMENTS are personal items which have been reproduced with Klein's permission and which were selected from her home with her guidance.  Because of their small size, this blog will be a better place for you to view and respond to these documents.  

You will also find maps which may aid in your understanding of Klein's amazing survival of a Death March  and of the enormity of the Nazi death camp operations, and examples of Nazi propaganda.  

Please view each document carefully and respond to the prompts using the comment section.  (You may click on the image to make it larger).  Use only your first name and last initial when commenting.  Use correct punctuation and spelling.  Please proofread before posting.   

*Photo and lesson plan credits: Teaching Tolerance (teachingtolerance.org), One Survivor Remembers, and the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation