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One play especially gives her renewed hope in the possibility of liberation and she describes the experience as "greatest thing I have done in my life" (p. 142)? Her meeting with Kurt Klein, a young American GI, was probably the most uplifting part of the book. The faith that had sustained her throughout the terrible ordeal was justified when she met this young man and fell in love. Soon after her liberation in 1945, she got married to Kurt and proved to the world that despite brutality and violence, it is faith and love that keep the world going on. It was definitely one of the most well written accounts of holocaust even though most people would find Diary of Anne Frank more emotionally stirring. The reason being that we all know that Anne Frank did not have the good luck of Gerda and thus while she was also full of hope; she sadly couldn't survive the holocaust and...

She not only managed to find her freedom but also got married and lived a happy and peaceful life. But she was unable to free herself completely of the burden of her painful past as she writes in the book, "Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden" (p. 247)
But writing this memoir helped her relief that burden to some extent as she admits in the preface of the book. The novel revolves around excruciatingly painful experiences of slave labor during Nazi occupation but throughout all this, there is still a glimpse of faith and hope that shines through and makes it a much better reading than many other accounts of the holocaust.

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Klein, GW. All but my Life. Hill and Wang; Expanded edition…

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