PHOENIX (AP) — Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive a presidential medal of freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month. Klein died April 3 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. Her granddaughter Alysa Cooper confirmed the death but did not give a cause. Klein was born May 8, 1924, to Helene and Julius Weissmann in Bielsko, Poland. She was a teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and the family was forced to live in the basement...
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