Gerda Weissmann Klein was a Polish American writer and human rights, activist.

She was born to a Jewish middle-class family in Bielsko, Poland, a town noted for its textile industry on May 8, 1924.

Her parents were Julius Weissmann and Helene Mueckenbrunn Weissmann.

Gerda who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, the activist was a mother of three children namely  Leslie Simon Klein, Vivian Ullman Klein, and James Klein.

She was single at the time of her death after 57 years of marriage. She got married to her husband, Kurt Klein in 1945 and parted ways in 2002 after he passed away.

Gerda Weissmann Klein obituary: What happened to Gerda Weissmann Klein?

After being torn from her family and home in Bielsko, Poland, in 1942, and surviving three years in concentration camps and a 350-mile death march before American forces rescued her in 1945, from an abandoned bicycle factory in the Czech Republic has sadly passed away on Sunday, April 3, 2022.

Gerda’s cause of death has not been disclosed by her family yet but, she is believed to have died of a natural cause.