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All But My Life: A Memoir is the true story of Jewish author Gerda Weissmann Klein’s struggle through German and Polish concentration camps during WWII. Separated from her family and enduring forced labor, starvation, and a death march, Gerda is eventually liberated and meets American soldier Kurt Klein, whom she marries, later becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen and a renowned author and lecturer. The book includes themes of systemic violence, sexual harassment, and sustained loss.