Voices on Antisemitism: Gerda Weissman Klein (Holocaust Survivor)
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: Voices on Antisemitism
Length: 05:44
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Piece Description
Gerda Klein survived the Holocaust and was liberated by an American soldier who she eventually married. Here, Klein discusses her understanding of hatred and antisemitism today. Voices on Antisemitism is a podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism and hatred in our world today. To learn more about antisemitism, and to contribute your thoughts to our series, please visit our Web site at http://www.ushmm.org/. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's podcast series on contemporary genocide. [anti-Semitism]
Transcript
GERDA WEISSMAN KLEIN:
Antisemitism, of course, matters. Particularly, I mean, it's particularly a great matter to me because, you know, my whole family was killed for no other reason than I was born into a Jewish family. I couldn't be anything else. I couldn't be a boy. I was born a girl. I was born in a Jewish family. I was born Jewish. And, of course, you know, this is much broader because so many people are being misunderstood or maligned for whatever they were born or the way they look or what have you.
DANIEL GREENE:
Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein has spent a lifetime educating others about the need for tolerance and understanding. For 60 years, she has written and spoken about her experiences in Nazi slave labor camps and on a death march through Germany at the end of the war, intended to eliminate all remaining witnesses. Klein survived that march, and, in fact, met her...
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Review of Voices on Antisemitism: Gerda Weissman Klein (Holocaust survivor)
Another pretty good audio piece produced by (or for) an institution with a stated agenda. In this case, it's the podcast of the United States Holocaust Museum. By "agenda" I don't mean anything pejorative; to point out, object to, and reflect on anti-Semitism is precisely what you'd expect the Holocaust Museum to do in its podcast. It's an entirely honorable agenda. Nonetheless, this piece would sound odd on most radio stations.
That said, the piece is nicely done. Ms. Klein says thoughtful things in a lovely, world-weary voice. In saying she believes "in the basic goodness of people," she sounds like the surprisingly optimistic elderly woman that Anne Frank might have become. She reflects in familiar terms on the misuse of religion to justify Islamist terrorism. The piece is simply constructed with music that comes and goes.