Community and Citizenship: An Evening with Gerda Weissmann Klein
March 20 at 6:30 pm
Gerda Weissmann Klein draws from her wealth of life experiences: from surviving the Holocaust and meeting her future husband on the day of her liberation, to her journey to the United States, accepting an Oscar and Emmy for a documentary based on her life, and her constant fight to promote tolerance, encourage community service and combat hunger. This event is part of Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project.
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Gerda Weissmann Klein
For over six decades, author, historian, and speaker Gerda Weissmann Klein has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration and humanity. Klein’s account of her experience as a Holocaust survivor is documented in her classic autobiography, All But My Life. This book was the foundation for the Oscar and Emmy-winning HBO documentary One Survivor Remembers.
President Obama awarded her the 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Klein to the Holocaust Museum’s Governing Council and she was selected to be the keynote speaker at the United Nation’s First Annual Official Observance of the Holocaust in January 2006.
In 2008, Klein founded Citizenship Counts, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate today’s youth on the tenets of citizenship, encourage them to appreciate their rights and responsibilities as Americans, and give them an opportunity to celebrate their citizenship.
