Gerda Weissmann Research Paper

Gerda Weissmann Klein’s Story Over 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Gerda lived in in Bielsko until the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. She was 15 years old when the Germans invaded. Gerda Weissmann survived the Ghettos, deportation, slave-labor camps, and a three month death march. Although Gerda Weissmann survived, she came out with many disturbing memories and sorrows from the Holocaust. In the Jewish Women Archives, it says, “Gerda Weissmann, the second child of Julius Weissmann and Helene Mueckenbrunn Weissmann, was born on May 8, 1924” (Gerda). According to the Jewish Women Archives, Gerda had her mom, dad and her older brother go into the Holocaust with her (Gerda). …show more content…
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it says, “Ghettos were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population” (Ghettos). In the book The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising it says that the Ghettos were separated into three different parts, the shop section (the productive ghetto), one consisting of several German brush making factories, and the central ghetto (Landau 9+10). The living environment was terrible in the Ghettos. Gerda went to the concentration camps in Marzdorf, Landshut, and Gruenburg. The living environment was terrible for Gerda. People were dying from starvation, disease, and by the gas chambers all around