The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath

Klein, Kurt,Klein, Gerda Weissmann

ISBN 10: 0312263384 / ISBN 13: 9780312263386

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2001

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Synopsis:

Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350 - mile death march which took her from a slave labour camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7, 1945, the American military stormed the area and the first soldier to approach Gerda was Kurt Klein. Written immediately after the war, when they were forced to seperate, their letters intimately chronicle their powerful love, from the time they first saw each other, when Gerda was near death in a concentration camp and Kurt, a German-born American soldier, arrived as one of the camp's liberators, to their marriage in Paris a year later.

About the Author:

Gerda Weissman Klein and Kurt Klein lecture frequently and have written extensively about their experiences during the Holocaust. Gerda Weissman Klien is the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers. Kurt Klein's story was featured in the PBS series American and the Holocaust. The Kleins have been married for more than fifty years and live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing...
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good