Born in Bielsko , Poland on May 8, 1924, Klein had led a “normal life ” until the Nazi invasion in September 1939, according to her obituary . She and her family were forced into a ghetto and her parents were eventually deported to Auschwitz. Klein never saw them or his brother again. Klein endured years in forced labor and concentration camps before being forced to walk a 35-mile death march between Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. Against all odds, Klein survived. American troops, including Lieutenant Kurt Klein , the man she would later marry, freed her...