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Holocaust survivor, author Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97

FILE - Gerda Weissmann Klein, center, Citizenship Counts founder and Holocaust survivor, granddaughter Alysa Ullman, wave flags during a Naturalization Ceremony at Maryland School in Phoenix on May 11, 2011. Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death in Phoenix earlier this month. Klein died April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. (Deirdre Hamill/The Arizona Republic via AP, File)

FILE - President Barack Obama presents Jewish Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Feb. 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death in Phoenix earlier this month. Klein died April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - Gerda Weissmann Klein holds a picture of her late husband, Kurt Klein, the U.S. soldier who rescued her from the Holocaust, at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Aug. 24, 2005. Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death in Phoenix earlier this month. Klein died April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97. (Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic via AP, File)

Holocaust survivor, author Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97