Kurt Klein

A German Jew, Klein grew up while his native country was growing increasingly intolerant of Jews. He had taught himself English by reading about America, and when he was 16 his parents sent him there. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer to help the fight against his former homeland. In 1945, he helped liberate a group of slave laborers in Czechoslovakia. One, named Gerda, who weighed just 68 pounds, later became his wife. He also helped a group of escaped male German prisoners to safety; one of them was Oskar Schindler. After retiring from the printing industry, Klein and Gerda toured the world to spread a message of tolerance -- "how you can turn any horrible degree of evil into good," a friend said. Klein collapsed in Guatemala during a lecture tour, and died April 19 at age 81. From This is True for 21 April 2002 Suggestions for further reading: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Lea... by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, Jeffrey Brantley Amazon Price: $15.61 Customer Review: I bought this upon the request of my psychotherapist wife. Personally I can't offer any evaluation of contents, and my wife has not mentioned the book since I gave it to her. The best I can offer is that she said it would be helpful to her in ...   Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Amazon Price: $8.64 Customer Review: Product arrived in decent time but it was not "like new" as advertised. There were a few scratches and a rip in the cover. It was also kind of dirty.   Zero Tolerance by John Luciew Amazon Price: Customer Review: Though fairly interesting, this book isn't nearly as good as Kill the Story or Secrets of the Dead. It's disjointed and hard to follow. I won't be buying any more of John Lucieu's books because of the terrible spelling, grammar and the repeated use ...   The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Cultur... by Maria Rosa Menocal Amazon Price: Customer Review: If not for a university class, I probably wouldn't have bought this book. Be that as it may, it remains in my library and not as a used book on the shelf in the bookstore via their buy back program. It is a worthy introduction to the subject of how...   Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence by Ian Buruma Amazon Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This goes into the situation in Holland preceding and after the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by Mohamad Bouyeri. It profiles Bouyeri, Van Gogh, another murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn and the Somalian woman turned anti-Islam activist...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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