Literature: "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissmann Klein
This site is about the book “All But My Life” by Gerda Weissmann Klein. There are book discussion guides, personal histories of Gerda and Kurt Klein, as well as historical information about the Holocaust. Includes a link to eTheme resource on the Holocaust.
Grades
- 11,
- 12
Links
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"All But My Life" Holocaust Studies Unit
This 49-page PDF is a comprehensive guide for studying "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Materials include: pre-reading activities, discussion questions, quizzes, and final test and essays.
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"All But My Life" Teacher's Guide
This 16-page PDF is a guide for those teaching "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Includes the following sections: a note to the teacher, preparing to read, understanding the story, questions for class discussion, expanding your knowledge, activities for the classroom, other resources, and about the author.
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"All But My Life" Learning Unit
This 12-page document provides a learning unit for "All But My Life" by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Includes an initiating activity, learning experiences, a culminating performance activity and rubric.
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"All But My Life" Discussion Guide
This site provides a study guide for the novel, "All But My Life". NOTE: This site contains ads.
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Macmillan Book's: "All But My Life" Discussion Guide
This site provides a teacher's guide and book discussion guide for the novel, "All But My Life".
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The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation website
Here is author information, ways to promote tolerance, and links to many sites and video clips about the Holocaust. Free teaching materials are also available through this site.
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Personal Histories of Gerda and Kurt Klein
Read this detailed information and see video clips about the lives of Gerda and Kurt Klein.
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My Family Hero: Gerda Weissmann Klein
Read this essay by Sarah about her great-great aunt, Gerda Weissmann Klein.
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Gerda Weissmann Klein Webcast
Gerda Kelin speaks of her struggle and survival during the Holocaust and challenges students to stand up to discrimination and extremism.
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Gerda Weissmann Klein - Acceptance Speech at the Academy Awards
See this brief YouTube video of Gerda Weissmann Klein receiving an Oscar for a documentary based upon her experiences in a concentration camp.
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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
This teacher resource for teaching the Holocaust, includes: vocabulary, discussion questions/research topics, student hand-outs, a bibliography, lessons plans, and the Florida Resource Manual on Holocaust Education.
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eThemes Resource: Holocaust
These sites are about the Holocaust and the devastating impact that it had on Jewish people and others. Also includes information about Adolf Hitler, concentration camps, crematoriums, and resistance fighters. There are videos of survivors talking about their experiences, plus many photos. Includes links to eThemes Resources on World War II and “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
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