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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: GERDA WEISSMAN KLEIN - SURVIVOR

By Greg Siskind

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Gerda Weissman Klein is to be congratulated for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom this past week. The honor conferred by the American President is the highest civilian award given to American citizens. She received the award in recognition of her decades of work as a human rights activist. Mrs. Klein was a young woman in her native Poland when the Nazis took over. She survived the concentration camps and a 350 mile death march in which her best friend died in her arms. Mrs. Klein's husband Kurt was also her liberator, an American Army intelligence officer. When he rescued...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).

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