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Lend a Hand! the World by Helping Others INSIDE:INSIDE: ● One Family’S Mission to Promote Tolerance and Respect Made ● Fighting Hunger Possible by in America StandStand Up,Up, SpeakSpeak Out,Out, Changing Lend a Hand! the World by Helping Others INSIDE:INSIDE: G One family’s mission to promote tolerance and respect Made G Fighting hunger possible by in America www.kleinfoundation.org www.kimmel.org www.centeronhunger.org FromFrom TerrorTerror toto ToleranceTolerance How Two Activist Spirits Were Born Gerda Weissmann Klein and Kurt Klein were both teens when the horrors of World War II changed their lives. From their personal suffer- ing and loss, they developed a deeply held belief in the essential values of tolerance and respect for others—and the importance of taking action through service to help people everywhere. CARLCOXPHOTO.COM ERDA WEISSMANN TURNED Gerda saw her father for the last was a German Jew who had fled the 15 ON MAY 8, 1939. It was time. The next day, she was separat- Nazis at age 17. Though Kurt Klein Gthe last birthday she would ed from her mother. Her parents hadn’t suffered the physical tor- ever celebrate with her family perished in the gas chambers. ments that Gerda had, he knew loss. together—mother, father and broth- Through three years in slave er, Arthur. It was the last she would labor camps—dressed in rags, A Failed Rescue celebrate in freedom until 1945. By always hungry, with the knowledge Kurt Klein grew up in Walldorf, then, Gerda, a Polish Jew, was the that death could come at any time— Germany. He turned 13 in 1933, the only one of her family and close Gerda carried on. She stayed close year Hitler came to power. Three friends alive. years later, with condi- The terror began tions growing worse for in September 1939, Jews, the Klein family when Nazi Germany decided to emigrate to invaded Poland and America. Kurt’s sister left first, and Kurt followed in 1937. The year after, Kurt’s older brother MEMORIAL DE CAEN/CORBIS SYGMA COURTESY COURTESY HBO arrived. Next, the chil- dren thought, would be their parents, Ludwig Gerda as a 15-year-old teen (left). Like this woman in a Nazi and Alice. concentration camp, Gerda was starving and emaciated, But time was run- weighing 68 pounds when she was liberated after three years of slave labor. ning out. In Germany, Hitler’s campaign against Gerda’s hometown of Bielsko. Arthur, to three girls as they moved from the Jews had become more violent. 19, was sent to a slave labor camp in camp to camp: Ilse Kleinzähler, Yet U.S. immigration laws re- Russia. Notes written on scraps of Suse Kunz and Liesel Stepper. mained strict about the number of paper told of his survival until early In January 1945, they were four immigrants allowed into the coun- 1943. Gerda never learned where or among 2,000 female prisoners who try. In December 1938, Kurt’s par- how her brother died. were forced on a three-month ents were given a number for an Gerda and her parents, Julius “death march” from Germany to appointment to apply for a visa to and Helene, managed to stay Czechoslovakia. Only 127 women the United States. There were together for three years. They were survived the bitter cold, starvation 22,344 cases ahead of them. Kurt forced to live in the cellar of their and sadistic guards. Gerda’s three estimated it would take two and home and then in one room in a friends died. Gerda, weighing 68 half years before his parents’ turn small Jewish ghetto the Nazis estab- pounds, lived. would come. lished in Bielsko. On June 28, 1942, The first U.S. soldier she met As they waited, their situation 2 grew desperate. In October 1940, Gerda had not bathed in three FIND OUT they were deported to Vichy years, her hair had turned white France. Food in their detention and she was a skeletal shadow of a MORE camp was meager. Their diet was being when she met Lieutenant Read about Gerda Weissmann watery soup and bread. Kurt Klein, outside a factory where Klein’s war Kurt believed it was possible to the death march survivors had been experience in her get his parents to safety as long as placed. Whereas men in uniforms autobiography, All they were in unoccupied France. had represented brutality to Gerda, But My Life. Your But always there were obstacles, here was a soldier who treated her teacher has a copy for class use. Also caused chiefly by the indifference kindly. Kurt even politely opened provided is One of the U.S. State Department—an the door for her as she led him to Survivor Remembers, indifference that kept them and the other “ladies,” as he called a documentary about Gerda that other refugees from getting the nec- them—most barely alive. won an Academy Award® in 1996. essary documents to enter the U.S. The dream for Gerda blos- In September 1942, Kurt’s let- somed into reality. Kurt kept close ters to his parents were returned, watch over her dur- stamped “no forwarding address.” ing months of recov- Gerda Klein, a student volunteer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman pack bags at the Capital Area Two months later, he was drafted ery. On the day he Food Bank in Washington, D.C. into the U.S. army. That same month, told Gerda that his he received a note saying that visas unit had been called for his parents had been approved. back to the U.S., he As a soldier in Europe after the proposed marriage. war, Kurt discovered his parents’ In 1946, they were fate. They had been deported to wed in Paris. Auschwitz and had died there. The Kleins set- tled in Buffalo, New Real-Life Fairy Tale York. He became a During her years of suffering in the businessman, she camps, Gerda dreamed of being res- became a writer. cued. She also dreamed of love, Together they raised COURTESY OF OF DEPARTMENT U.S. AGRICULTURE marriage and having a family. That three children. shooting deaths there in 1999. she would find all of those longings Columbine students found kindred fulfilled by a U.S. army intelligence Activists Together spirits in Gerda and Kurt. The Kleins officer was extraordinary. That could have been enough. But understood the students’ loss and the experience of their early lives confusion over why they survived charged them to action. They were when their friends did not. And in determined to educate others the Kleins’ example that pain can 5 RULES about the dangers of intolerance be converted into positive action in to Live and Serve By unchecked. Their personal mission service to others, the students found also included supporting civic a focus for their own pain and grief. from Gerda and Kurt Klein activism to end hunger, a condition Kurt died in 2002, but Gerda • Never give up on your dreams. Gerda knew all too well during the continues to share their moving • Pain should not be wasted— war. They resolved to make young experiences—and call to action— use it for good. people the focus of their efforts to with students. She has spent much promote tolerance and respect of her life trying to ensure that what • Discover what you can do by doing for others. through education and community happened to her as a teenager does service, and they have spoken not happen to other generations of • Compassion and understanding are gifts everyone can give. before thousands of students across teens. She offers her story of sur- the United States. They traveled vival as inspiration—and she chal- • Show tolerance and welcome to Columbine High School in lenges every young person to make diversity, and you will greatly enrich your life. Colorado following the tragic a difference by helping others. CHAGOLL BACKGROUND: USHMM, COURTESY LYDIA 3 TeTeens e n s MakingMaking aa DifferenceDifference How are teens getting involved in their communities? Here are students who have discovered that they can connect with others through service and make their own corner of the world a more tolerant, respectful and inclusive place. kids I teach want to learn guitar Eric Hsiao, 15, and their families can’t afford les- Palo Alto, sons. For me, it’s a way of giving back for the opportunities I’ve California had. Volunteering opens your BRIDGING GENERATIONS eyes to what you can do as an THROUGH SERVICE individual for others.” ERIC volunteers with elderly residents of a nursing home near Megan Stewart, 18, where he lives. He helps Bronson, Kansas in the dining room with Helping the elderly is how Eric Hsiao PERFORMING TO PROMOTE serving and cleaning reaches out to the residents of his city. COURTESY ESTHER WOJCICKI COURTESY ESTHER TOLERANCE up, but mainly he MEGAN helped turn a National spends time with the residents, ence to older people, children and History Day project about Irena talking and listening. He started to others who need attention.” Sendler, a Polish Christian who fulfill a community-service require- saved hundreds of Jewish children ment at school and enjoyed his Joshua Williams, 18, in the Warsaw ghetto during World work so much that he has increased War II, into a dramatic perform- his visits. Andover, Massachusetts ance on Sendler and her heroism. “I volunteer about five or six SHARING THE COMMON She and her classmates have pre- hours a week because I like helping LANGUAGE OF MUSIC sented the piece as a service project others this way,” Eric explains. “But JOSH has been playing classical to schools and community groups if every teen just gave one hour a guitar since he was young.
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