Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Gerda Weissmann Klein

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Gerda Weissmann Klein.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Gerda Weissmann Klein

Gerda Weissmann Klein was a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All but My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. She married Kurt Klein (1920–2002) in 1946.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.
I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.
Pain should not be wasted. — © Gerda Weissmann Klein
Pain should not be wasted.
I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.
Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.
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